- Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
- Imprint: Everyman
- ISBN: 9781857150681
- Length: 314 pages
- Dimensions: 212mm x 36mm x 135mm
- Weight: 729g
- Price: £15.99
Villette
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The narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette
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