{"product_id":"villette-by-charlotte-bronte-9780140434798","title":"Villette","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of \u003cem\u003eVillette\u003c\/em\u003e. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46496555041004,"sku":"9780140434798","price":25.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27235753482237.jpg?v=1748501491","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/villette-by-charlotte-bronte-9780140434798","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}