Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.
- ISBN10 0679409882
- ISBN13 9780679409885
- Publish Date 10 March 1992
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Everyman's Library
- Format Hardcover (Deckle Edge)
- Pages 256
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780679409885