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The 7th batch of titles in the beautifully designed and affordable collection, "Penguin English Library", covering the very best fiction written in English from the 18th century to the beginning of WWI.
Synopsis
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her complex feelings, first for school's English doctor and then for dictatorial professor.
