Villette

A reserved young Englishwoman takes a teaching post in a foreign city and confronts loneliness, longing and a fiercely guarded heart.

At a glance Charlotte Brontë's late novel is a searching study of solitude and desire. Few narrators keep their secrets as closely, or feel as deeply beneath the surface, as… Charlotte Brontë's Villette is a novel about the loneliness we hide and the passions we… What it's about Lucy Snowe, without family or fortune, travels alone to a Continental…

Lucy Snowe, without family or fortune, travels alone to a Continental city and finds work at a girls' boarding school.