Villette - Grand Format

"Who are you, Miss Snowe...". "Who am I indeed ? Perhaps a personage in disguise"". With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding scrool in the small ton of Villette. There she struggles to retain her silf-posiessioriin thelface of unruly pupils, a headmistress who spies on her staff, and her own complex feelings - first for the school's English doctor dnd thee for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel Drawing on her own experiences as a teacher in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.