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ISBN-10: 0307455564
ISBN-13: 9780307455567
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 04/07/2009
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.24" W, 1.17" H

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Overview

Charlotte Brontë’s final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.

Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self-possession. Published in 1853, Charlotte Bronte’s last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness.

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"Brontë's finest novel."
–Virginia Woolf
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Details

ISBN-10: 0307455564
ISBN-13: 9780307455567
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 04/07/2009
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.24" W, 1.17" H
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