Based on Charlotte Bronte’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.

Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman’s right to love and be loved.

INTRODUCTION

VOLUME ONE

Bretton

Paulma

The Playmates

Miss Marcbmont

Turning a New Leaf

London

Villette

Madame Beck

Isidore

Dr Tohn

The Portresse’s Cabinet

The Casket

A Sneeze Out of Season

Tbe Fete

The Long Vacation

VOLUME TWO

Auld Lang Syne

La Terrasse

We Quarrel

The Cleopatra

The Concert

Reaction

The Letter

Vashti

M. de Bassompierre

The Little Countess

A Burial

The Hotel Crecy

VOLUME THREE

The Watchguard

Monsieur’s Fete

M. Paul

The Dryad

The First Letter

M. Paul Keeps His Promise

Malevola

Fraternity

The Apple of Discord

Sunshine

Cloud

Old and New Acquaintance

The Happy Pair

Faubourg Clotilde

Finis

NOTES