Villette (The Works Of Charlotte Bronte. (Currer Bell) : An Illustrated Edition in Four Volumes)
by Charlotte Bronte
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Hyattsville, Maryland, United States
Item Price
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About This Item
Henry B. Ashmead , S.a.(19th ed.). Hardcover. Good. 520 p., clean and unmarked anywhere although there is small bookseller's label on front pastedown; gutters cracked but binding firm; beautiful engraving "The Park, Brussels" frontis. with tissue guard as well as "St. Paul's Cathedral" on t.p. Other full-page engravings with tissue guards: "Pensionnat De Demoiselle, Brussels"; "Garden In The Rue Fossette;" and "Grande Place, Brussels." Red boards clean but faded; gilt lettering and striation on spine clear; corners bumped and there is pronounced rubbing at crown and foot of spine.
Synopsis
"I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette ..." —George Eliot 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 Brontë’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. Villette draws on Brontë’s own unhappy experience as a governess in Brussels New Introduction examines the novel's social and historical context and argues for its importance as an exploration of imperialism Includes chronology, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes
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- Bookseller
- Robert Harper Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100387
- Title
- Villette (The Works Of Charlotte Bronte. (Currer Bell) : An Illustrated Edition in Four Volumes)
- Author
- Charlotte Bronte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry B. Ashmead
- Date Published
- S.a.(19th ed.)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Robert Harper Books LLC
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rubbing
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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