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Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
I had a strong sense of deja-vu when I started reading this; I think I tried to scale this mountain once before and was defeated. At 618 closely-printed pages, it is a bit of a slog. Bronte was certainly not a succinct author.
That said, I do love her prose style. The end of this book, about which I knew nothing, was quite a shock. I won't give it away but I will say that it's certainly not what you are thinking it will be. It is a book full of sadness and unfairness to the main character, so don't try it if you're in the mood for a light read.
I liked the first part of the book the most because Bronte is using the best way she knows to complain about the situations a women faced in her time. If a woman was unmarried and without financial means, she was lost to the world. Lucy had no man to bring order to her life, neither father nor brother nor husband to catch her when she fell, and there was no place for her in society because she was made too well for true poverty. She is scarred by events over which she has no control.
That said, I do love her prose style. The end of this book, about which I knew nothing, was quite a shock. I won't give it away but I will say that it's certainly not what you are thinking it will be. It is a book full of sadness and unfairness to the main character, so don't try it if you're in the mood for a light read.
I liked the first part of the book the most because Bronte is using the best way she knows to complain about the situations a women faced in her time. If a woman was unmarried and without financial means, she was lost to the world. Lucy had no man to bring order to her life, neither father nor brother nor husband to catch her when she fell, and there was no place for her in society because she was made too well for true poverty. She is scarred by events over which she has no control.