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Charlotte BrontëVillette (February 10, 2007)

LibriVox recording of Villette by Charlotte Brontë.

After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a strict, peculiar schoolmaster changes her life forever– and threatens to break her spirit. (summary by heatherausten)

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Artist/Composer: Charlotte Brontë
Date: 2007-02-10
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; literature; audiobook; Bronte

Creative Commons license: Public Domain


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Chapter 1 - Bretton17 MB13 MB8.44 MB
Chapter 2 - Paulina15 MB8.58 MB7.39 MB
Chapter 3 - The Playmates32 MB18 MB16 MB
Chapter 4 - Miss Marchmont23 MB13 MB11 MB
Chapter 5 - Turning a New Leaf10 MB5.46 MB5.02 MB
Chapter 6 - London23 MB13 MB12 MB
Chapter 7 - Villette22 MB12 MB11 MB
Chapter 8 - Madame Beck30 MB17 MB15 MB
Chapter 9 - Isidore25 MB14 MB12 MB
Chapter 10 - Dr. John16 MB8.88 MB8.02 MB
Chapter 11 - The Portresse's Cabinet14 MB7.54 MB6.95 MB
Chapter 12 - The Casket25 MB14 MB12 MB
Chapter 13 - A Sneeze Out of Season26 MB15 MB13 MB
Chapter 14 - The Fete63 MB34 MB32 MB
Chapter 15 - The Long Vacation28 MB16 MB14 MB
Chapter 16 - Auld Lang Syne32 MB17 MB16 MB
Chapter 17 - La Terrasse21 MB11 MB10 MB
Chapter 18 - We Quarrel17 MB9.13 MB8.36 MB
Chapter 19 - The Cleopatra26 MB14 MB13 MB
Chapter 20 - The Concert41 MB23 MB20 MB
Chapter 21 - Reaction39 MB23 MB20 MB
Chapter 22 - The Letter22 MB18 MB11 MB
Chapter 23 - Vashti27 MB15 MB14 MB
Chapter 24 - M. De Bassompierre28 MB16 MB14 MB
Chapter 25 - The Little Countess30 MB16 MB15 MB
Chapter 26 - Villette31 MB18 MB16 MB
Chapter 27 - The Hotel Crecy36 MB20 MB18 MB
Chapter 28 - The Watchguard27 MB15 MB13 MB
Chapter 29 - Monsieurs Fete30 MB17 MB15 MB
Chapter 30 - M. Paul23 MB12 MB12 MB
Chapter 31 - The Dryad24 MB12 MB12 MB
Chapter 32 - The First Letter19 MB11 MB9.33 MB
Chapter 33 - M. Paul Keeps His Promise18 MB10 MB9.12 MB
Chapter 34 - Malevola26 MB15 MB13 MB
Chapter 35 - Fraternity27 MB15 MB13 MB
Chapter 36 - The Apple of Discord33 MB24 MB16 MB
Chapter 37 - Sunshine30 MB17 MB15 MB
Chapter 38 - Cloud63 MB34 MB32 MB
Chapter 39 - Old and New Aquaintance26 MB15 MB13 MB
Chapter 40 - The Happy Pair14 MB7.87 MB6.97 MB
Chapter 41 - Faubourg Clotilde36 MB21 MB18 MB
Chapter 42 - Villette8.83 MB4.96 MB4.42 MB
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Reviewer: katknit - [4.0 out of 5 stars] - August 11, 2009
Subject: Villette: Teaching and Learning
The heroine of this lesser known of Charlotte Bronte's novels is called Lucy Snowe, which means "light" and "cold". Thrown upon her own resources at the tender age of 14, Lucy sets out for France and, by the skin of her teeth, lands a job at a girls' school in Villete. As her name suggests, Lucy holds herself aloof from all the usual interests of young women. Coincidence and improbability plays major roles in the plot of this novel, and if the reader is intolerant of such, the book will not satisfy. Rich in symbolism, Villette serves as a metaphor for the lives of women in Victorian Europe. Particularly striking is the mystery of the spectral nun who appears in garret and garden cloister. For the modern reader, Villette suffers from too much "sermonizing." It's possible, however, to balance the religiosity with the humor invested in relatively minor characters, such as the proto-feminist Ginevra Fanshawe, who "has suffered less than any" other woman in Lucy's world. Ginevra is refreshingly, sometimes comedically, unrestricted by the conventions of her society. It requires but little imagination to hear the voice of Charlotte herself, who indeed lived much of her life in similar circumstances, in the thoughts and soliloquies of Lucy. In the end, Lucy's defensive remoteness is breached, but the reader is left to decide exactly how her story plays out.

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