Villette isn't as fast-paced as Jane Eyre (if you can call Jane Eyre fast-paced). It's not as positive, either--the ending is sad. I think you can learn a lot about Charlotte Bronte through reading it, though. It's about a teacher in another country (Brussels?) who falls in love with another teacher at her school, M. Paul, who's just about the antithesis of normal literary heroes. He's short,...
more Villette isn't as fast-paced as Jane Eyre (if you can call Jane Eyre fast-paced). It's not as positive, either--the ending is sad. I think you can learn a lot about Charlotte Bronte through reading it, though. It's about a teacher in another country (Brussels?) who falls in love with another teacher at her school, M. Paul, who's just about the antithesis of normal literary heroes. He's short, unhandsome, rude. But he turns out to have a heart. Bronte herself taught at a foreign school and fell in love with the married husband of the head of the school (nothing came of it). There are some satirical portraits of secondary characters too, like Ginevra Fanshawe. The book is well-written, but in my opinion not Bronte's best.
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