Villette (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

After a family disaster, Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school. There, Lucy becomes progressively closer to the irascible, autocratic, and male chauvinist professor, M. Paul Emanuel. However, a group of conspiring antagonists work to keep the two apart, on the grounds that a union between a catholic and a protestant is impossible.

Villette is noted for its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology. The novel, in a gothic sett...