The Professor
by Charlotte Bronte
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0140621423
- ISBN 13
- 9780140621426
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About This Item
Charlotte Bronte's first novel, The Professor, is narrated from the viewpoint of an ambitious and self-made man.
Rejecting his aristocratic inheritance William Crimsworth goes to Brussels to find his fortune. He takes a job teaching at a boarding school for young ladies, where he begins a flirtation with Zoraide Reuter, who, out of jealousy, attempts to frustrate his courtship of Frances Henri, an attractive young woman determined to make her way in the world.
In The Professor Charlotte Bronte holds up to scrutiny the Victorian ideals of self-help and individualism. The result is an unusual love story, and a novel profoundly critical of a society in which the relationships between men and women are reduced to power struggles.
Synopsis
The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9
- Title
- The Professor
- Author
- Charlotte Bronte
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140621423
- ISBN 13
- 9780140621426
- Publisher
- Penguin Popular Classicss
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 256
- Keywords
- Literature