{"product_id":"villette-by-charlotte-bronte-hardback","title":"Villette","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.\/With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There, she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings - first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë'sautobiographical novel, the last published during her lifetime, is a powerfully moving study of loneliness and isolation, and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances. \/Helen M. Cooper's new introduction places the novel in the context of Brontë's life and career and argues for the importance of the novel as an exploration of imperialism.\/‘I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette' George Eliot\/‘Her finest novel' Virginia Woolf\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlotte Bronte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57023542329675,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/image_cf217e85-5636-4bc3-9fb3-0f800deb4a13.jpg?v=1776099601","url":"https:\/\/paperwing.co.uk\/products\/villette-by-charlotte-bronte-hardback","provider":"Paperwing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}