Villette
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enjoyable
submitted by stoutr on July 18, 2014, 8:38pm
Villette is narrated in first person by Lucy Snowe, who is very aware that she is telling her story to a reader and does not always reveal everything she knows and sometimes allowing the reader to arrive at a false conclusion. Figuring out Lucy Snowe is part of what made this book so interesting to me. This book is highly character-driven, and is best read slowly. The plot does also take several twists, a few of which I saw coming but many of which I did not. I enjoyed it.
This book has a little of everything--a shipwreck, a love triangle, an opposites-attract love story, a young woman forced to make it mostly on her own in a time when that was difficult, religious tension between Catholics and Protestants, and even a little bit of a ghost story.
Charlotte Bronte's least read book?
submitted by willow on August 24, 2016, 1:14pm
Apparently this book is fairly obscure. I think it took me ten years to read it. One thing that slowed me down was the copious use of French throughout. My French, alas, was too poor to understand all of it. Pauvre de petite moi. Clearly in an earlier era, readers were better educated. The story has an enormous number of twists and turns, so don't read this when you are not really paying attention.
This book was featured on Diane Rehm's Readers' Review, so if you would like to hear an hour of thoughtful discussion on it, check out https://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2007-06-20/readers-review-villette-charlotte-bronte
A free download of an electronic version is available, as it is in the public domain.
PUBLISHED
various publishers, 1853.
Year Published: 1853
Description: 481 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0140434798 (Penguin)
037575850X :
0679602747 :
0192818368 (Oxford Univ.) :
0701112409 :