Villette, a novel

In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a hardcover Penguin edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Brontë's greatest achievement was published.

With no friends or family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to seek employment at a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to maintain self-control in the face of rebellious students, an initially distrustful principal, and her own complex feelings, first toward the school's English doctor and then toward the dictatorial teacher Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë's latest and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of the isolation and pain of unrequited love.

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