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Villette

Charlotte Brontë

Start date: March 1, 2016

Finish date: April 11, 2016

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Jul 02, 2009 Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: british-literature, victorian-literature, favorites, historical-fiction, read-in-2010, the-brontes, my-western-canon, everymans-library-editions, author-bronte-sisters, oxford-worlds-classics-paperback

I cry in anguish, "Oh Villette, Villette, Villette!"

It was a feeling that came upon me as I read this novel; the palpable feeling of—

The cold grey storms of the fall and winter, the relentless building winds, the rain pounding against the window—those dark and dreary days of loneliness—all of the losses have brought you a smothering and almost overwhelming mantle of grief. You see, and write of, the Love around you, but feel the throbbing ache, day after day, night after night, of never receivin ...more

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Sep 29, 2009 Laurel Hicks rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audible, books-read-in-2010, books-read-in-2016, 0-kindle, 2016-5

2010: This is an amazing book. I'm not sure just what to say about it yet--it's left me speechless. Now that I know the characters and the plot, I feel I should read it again to process all the psychology and the references. It is saturated with the Bible and John Bunyan, but I just have not put it all together yet.

2016: Dear reader, get a copy and devour it. ...more

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Mar 22, 2010 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2010, classics, victorians, audio-books, hf-19th-century-europe, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you

Adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Brontë about Lucy Snowe, who travels to th fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school, where she meets romance and adventure. With Joseph Fiennes, Harriet Walter and Keira Knightley.

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May 13, 2014 Andreea rated it liked it

Shelves: women-writers, victorian

"Who are you, Miss Snowe?" she inquired, in a tone of such undisguised and unsophisticated curiosity, as made me laugh in my turn.

That's it, though ? Ginerva's demand that Lucy explain who she is (which Lucy merely laughs off) is what the novel hinges on. This is such a weird, unsatisfying book. You never find out who Lucy Snowe really is (it's never explained how she lost her family, for example), you don't even get a clear ending. The murkiness of Lucy Snowe as a character is made even more an ...more

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