Literary Criticism, American

Villette

Name: Villette
Author: Charlotte Bronte
ISBN: 9780140434798

by Charlotte Bronte, Helen Cooper (Editor), Helen Cooper

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Synopsis

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.

Virginia Woolf

Brontë’s finest novel.

About the Author, Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë once wrote, "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." Though she led a quiet life (and died young), Brontë indeed created action in her sweeping, passionate novels, such as the gothic drama Jane Eyre.