Villette
Published on 1. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-1-84002-640-5 (ISBN)
Description
A new life beckons for Lucy Snowe, who leaves behind her past and flees from England. She finds work as a school teacher in the town of Villette, but her struggle to remain independent is overshadowed by despair and desire. Lucy's fevered imagination drives her to the edge, enduring fire, storms and callous rejection before pushing her teasingly close to a happy ending. "Villette" was Charlotte Bronte's last completed novel, and her most autobiographical. It thinly disguises her own life when she ventured away from the infamous Yorkshire parsonage to study but fell passionately - and dangerously - in love. This powerful, classic masterpiece is given a distinctive twist by the Stephen Joseph Theatre and award-winning theatre company Frantic Assembly. Production opens at SJT in October 2005.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
145 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84002-640-5 (9781840026405)
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Lisa Evans writes for theatre, radio and television. Her original stage plays include Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home, Under Exposure, Crime of the Century, The Shadow of Light and Christmas Without Herods. She has adapted The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and East Lynne for Birmingham Repertory Theatre's old Studio Theatre.