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"Quella sera mi si rinsaldò nell'animo più fermamente che mai la convinzione che il Fato fosse di pietra, e la Speranza un falso idolo, cieco, senza sangue e dal cuore di granito." È la giovane Lucy Snowe a raccontarsi con queste parole colme di dolore. Rimasta senza parenti, casa e mezzi economici dopo un disastro familiare, accetta un impiego come istitutrice in un collegio femminile nell'immaginaria città di Villette. E lì conosce l'amore. Ma il suo non sembra essere un destino di felicità... Pubblicato nel 1853, "L'angelo della tempesta" è l'ultimo e il più autobiografico tra i romanzi di Charlotte Brönte: un testo di sorprendente finezza psicologica e dalle tonalità narrative che svariano dal lirico al gotico. Un libro molto ammirato da Virginia Woolf, che lo considerava superiore anche a "Jane Eyre"; da George Eliot, che vi ravvisava quasi un "potere soprannaturale". Postfazione di Lucio Angelini.
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- Pagine: 704
- Data di uscita: 28-08-2017
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welcome to...VILLETTEMBER! that would be a better pun for september but who cares, big news, THIS MONTH HAS TWO PROJECT LONG CLASSIC INSTALLMENTS! i missed this project so much, and it's been so long, and also i am so behind on my reading challenge and tired of reading tiny books and graphic novels to Leggi tutto
“Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars--a cage, so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.” When I was growing up in Leggi tutto
This book is better than Jane Eyre, guys. This is where Charlotte Bronte shows her real brilliance. I hovered between giving this two stars and four for about half the book because I really wasn't sure what was going on beneath the surface. But then I figured out that I was stupid and didn't see hal Leggi tutto
With this, I think, fourth reading, the book reconstitutes itself utterly fresh yet familiar. I still find it surprising in ways I could not have appreciated earlier, as if another layer of the narrative complexity were revealing itself. It seems logical to reread books an author has put through mul Leggi tutto
I finished this last night and I'm STILL ANGRY. WHAT THE HELL, CHARLOTTE? I mean, seriously. I would also like to sit down with the person who wrote the introduction and talked about how Villette is so much better than Jane Eyre. I would like to speak to this person about their drug habit, and how it' Leggi tutto
Lucy Snowe a plain -looking quiet 23-year- old intelligent woman in need of money and help, ( stating it mildly) she has no family left in England in an era before Victoria came to the throne, her godmother Mrs. Bretton who lived in a small town ironically named Bretton, has moved to colossal London Leggi tutto
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