Villette

Novel
Book language: English
500 pages

Villette is Charlotte Brontë’s novel narrated by Lucy Snowe, an Englishwoman who settles in the fictional town of Villette and teaches at a girls’ school. It explores solitude, love, resilience and the inner life with psychological depth. It is worth listening to for its atmospheric setting and Brontë’s restrained, searching prose.

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Villette
Contents
VILLETTE.
CHAPTER I. BRETTON.
CHAPTER II. PAULINA.
CHAPTER III. THE PLAYMATES.
CHAPTER IV. MISS MARCHMONT.
CHAPTER V. TURNING A NEW LEAF.
CHAPTER VI. LONDON.
CHAPTER VII. VILLETTE.
CHAPTER VIII. MADAME BECK.
CHAPTER IX. ISIDORE.
CHAPTER X. DR JOHN.
CHAPTER XI. THE PORTRESS’S CABINET.
CHAPTER XII. THE CASKET.
CHAPTER XIII. A SNEEZE OUT OF SEASON.
CHAPTER XIV. THE FÊTE.
CHAPTER XV. THE LONG VACATION.
CHAPTER XVI. AULD LANG SYNE.
CHAPTER XVII. LA TERRASSE.
CHAPTER XVIII. WE QUARREL.
CHAPTER XIX. THE CLEOPATRA.
CHAPTER XX. THE CONCERT.
CHAPTER XXI. REACTION.
CHAPTER XXII. THE LETTER.
CHAPTER XXIII. VASHTI.
CHAPTER XXIV. M. DE BASSOMPIERRE.
CHAPTER XXV. THE LITTLE COUNTESS.
CHAPTER XXVI. A BURIAL.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE HÔTEL CRÉCY.

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