{"product_id":"villette-paperback-13","title":"Villette - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Bronte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Bront 's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving 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, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Brontë (1816-1855), a poor clergyman's daughter from Yorkshire, England, worked as a teacher and governess before her publication of \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre \u003c\/i\u003ewon her instant fame. She went on to produce three more novels before dying at the age of thirty-eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 672\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 8.02 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42176889389191,"sku":"9780307455567","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/16d3f32649133de86a1f32bbfdcde2a7.webp?v=1733393377","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/villette-paperback-13","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}