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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied - Sleep never came!' Based on Charlotte Bronte's own experiences as a governess in Brussels, her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls' boarding school in the town of Villette. Finding the students challenging and experiencing the pain of unrequited love for the first time, Lucy becomes increasingly isolated in a world governed by societal expectation and struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of her envious and watchful employer, Madame Beck.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Villette
• Author: Charlotte Bronte
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780007449415
• ISBN: 0007449410
• ID: 04426979
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 177 × 111 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 2012

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