{"product_id":"villette-9780307455567","title":"Villette","description":"Charlotte Bront 's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Bront? (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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674763399442,"sku":"9780307455567","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_37d9aa67-075e-4ab9-945c-2e7fbf8ffd47.jpg?v=1737243927","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/villette-9780307455567","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}