Villette

Villette Synopsis

An exciting repackage of the work that Virginia Woolf declared to be Charlotte Bronte's "finest novel," with a new introduction by Weike Wang, as part of the Modern Library's "Torchbearers" series. Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new file as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.