The book "Villette" — Charlotte BronteVillette. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied -- Sleep never came! Based on Charlotte Brontes own experiences as a governess in Brussels, her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls boarding school in the town of Villette. Finding the students challenging and experiencing the pain of unrequited love for the first time, Lucy becomes increasingly isolated in a world governed by societal expectation and struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of her envious and watchful employer, Madame Beck.
История молодой англичанки Люси Сноу, рано осиротевшей, оказавшейся в полном одиночестве, без средств к существованию. Героине приходится преодолеть много трудностей, столкнуться с лицемерием и несправедливостью, пережить тяжелые разочарования, утрату иллюзии и крушение надежд на счастье. | 
