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Villette

Charlotte Brontë

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

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

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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Jul 23, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books

Charlotte Bronte writes beautiful prose and while many do not like this book as well as Jane Eyre, I think it might be her strongest work. Lucy Snowe is someone I could know, and like, today. She is strong and feminist. She has goals that are separate from the man in her life. She loves her man, and yet she seems happiest and most fulfilled during the years he is away. She is independent enough that it seems she would be fine if he were not to be in her future. She is wonderfully strong and yet ...more

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Sep 30, 2011 Brad marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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I. I started this with the audiobook, listening to it during my commute, but my contract is up and my commute is commuted until the summer, and this is too good to listen to sporadically. So I will be buying it and reading it the good old fashioned way. In book form. More to come.

II. Space for my review when I get there.

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Jan 02, 2009 Jennifer rated it really liked it

The main character and, it seems, the author, read as severely prudish, which diminishes the enjoyment of this book. There are a number of really good character portraits, however, and it was worth reading for those. A word of warning, however: the first 3 chapters have a syrupy quality that makes them really hard to get through.

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