Read It Like Rory Book Club via ZOOM

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The Read It Like Rory Book Club will discuss Villette by Charlotte Brontë

 

Event date: 
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
Books Inc.
3515 California St.
San Francisco, CA
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Books: 
Villette By Charlotte Bronte, Helen M. Cooper (Editor), Helen M. Cooper (Introduction by), Helen M. Cooper (Notes by) Cover Image
By Charlotte Bronte, Helen M. Cooper (Editor), Helen M. Cooper (Introduction by), Helen M. Cooper (Notes by)
$13.00
ISBN: 9780140434798
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Published: Penguin Classics - December 28th, 2004

June 2021 Selection:

am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette... --George Eliot

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.