Author: Bronte, Charlotte and Temple Scott
Title: Villette, Volume 1 and 2
Description: Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. Hardcover. Two volume set bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt; each volume with bw illustrated frontispiece. Volume 1 is 421 pp. Volume 2 is 406 pp. "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, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontė's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances."-publisher's description. Good+ (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean.) .
Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Fiction ; ;
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Title: Villette, Volume 1 and 2
Description: Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. Hardcover. Two volume set bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt; each volume with bw illustrated frontispiece. Volume 1 is 421 pp. Volume 2 is 406 pp. "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, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontė's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances."-publisher's description. Good+ (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean.) .
Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Fiction ; ;
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 185242
- Book number: 185242
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