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    The Professor (Penguin Classics)

     
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    The Professor (Penguin Classics)

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    "The middle and latter portion of The Professor is as good as I can write. It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre." - Charlotte Brontë

    The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontë's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society. Brontë's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine. The Professor endures today as both a harbinger of Brontë's later novels and a compelling read in its own right.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9780140433111
    Edition:
    New Ed
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    320
    Publication date:
    1989-01-26
    Publisher:
    Penguin Classics
    Languages:
    english
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780140433111
    Edition:
    New Ed
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    320
    Publication date:
    1989-01-26
    Publisher:
    Penguin Classics
    Languages:
    english

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