Villette
by Bronte, Charlotte
"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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Villette ( Everyman's Library No. 351 ) Full Leather De Luxe Edition
by Bronte, Charlotte
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ;. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1928. Reprint. Hardcover. Bound in original maroon full textured leather boards. Decorative bright gilt lettering to spine, and bright gilt logo to the bottom front of the front cover. Top edge Gilt. Remaining page fore-edges gently and lightly 'toned/dusty' with age. With an… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
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In shaping Villette, as with Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte drew upon her own life.
Her heroine, Lucy Snowe, possesses neither beauty nor fortune, but her cool demeanour belies a passionate heart. Friendless and alone in the world, she takes up a position at a girls' school in Brussels presided over by the indomitable Madame Beck. There she falls under the spell… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
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UK: Dent, 1905. First Edition Thus . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Edmund Dulac. 1st Edition Thus 1905. Two Volumes Complete of Villette. From the works of the Bronte Sisters. Six coloured plates per volume by Dulac. A nice decorative gift set. Bound in original cream boards with olive decoration… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
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UK: Warne, 1894. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. New Edition 1894. Bound in the original cloth boards. Book is very good and quite bright. Light marking and edge rubbing to cloth. Contents good with odd foxing to some pages. School gift bookplate to age toned endpapers. More images can… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice, and the Road to Reinvention
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New York: Dey St./ William Morrow Publishers/ HGarperCollins, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine+/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. May, 2016. Holly Madison escapes ' the mansion ' and goes to Vegas to reinvent herself. 272 pp. plus About the Author. Book has wee bit of wear at base of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
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Villette
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New York: Book of the Month Club [BMOC], 1990. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 477 pages. Condition of the book is Very Good+; looks new on all points. Dust jacket is Very Good; very clean, not faded. STK Item Price
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Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
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J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. Reprinted. 645 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Ownership plate stuck to front pastedown. Pen markings to back free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed brown. Binding remains firm. Boards have… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
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London: Robert Riviere & Son Ltd Circa 1920. Small 8vo. xviii, 462 pp., Bound by Riviere in red, half calf binding with cloth boards, gilt lettered spine and top edge gilt. Some sunning to the spine, with wear to the extremities. Binding firm with very small hole to the foredge from insect damage affecting 348-69 pp. Internally clean and illustrated… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette (The Works Of Charlotte Bronte. (Currer Bell) : An Illustrated Edition in Four Volumes)
by Charlotte Bronte
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Villette (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte
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VILLETTE
by Charlotte Bronte
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Villette (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte
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Villette (Modern Library) (Modern Library Torchbearers)
by Charlotte Bronte
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by Bronte, Charlotte
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Modern Library, 1997. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($18.50 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1997. Octavo. Gray boards stamped in gold. Book is like new. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. There is light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette: Volume I
by Charlotte Bronte
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- 1911
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John Grant, 1911. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1911. Thornton Edition. 422 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations to spine. Contains 3 black and white illustrated plates. Volume I. Rough-cut edges. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Slightly more pronounced to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracks to guttering, slightly exposing netting. Binding remains… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
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ALLAN WINGATE, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 558 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Light foxing and noticeable tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
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- 1929
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John Murray, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. Reprinted. 594 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm with some very slight looseness to boards. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild mottling, tanning… Read more about this item Item Price
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