Bronte, Charlotte. Villette.BRONTE, Charlotte. Villette. Read by Karen Cass. 17 cds. 20.33 hrs. Isis Audio Books. 185312005. 0-753102449-1. $109.95. Vinyl; content notes. SA * Like Bronte's earlier heroine in the eponymous e·pon·y·mous adj. Of, relating to, or constituting an eponym. [From Greek ep  numos; see eponym. Jane Eyre This article is about the Victorian novel. For other uses, see Jane Eyre (disambiguation).Jane Eyre is a classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë that was published in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Company, London. , Lucy Snowe is a solitary figure, with no family and few friends. She suffers great privation of the soul as she makes her own way in the world. Villette is a more biographical work, and more realistic than Jane Eyre. Quiet, inconspicuous in·con·spic·u·ous adj. Not readily noticeable. in  con·spic Lucy, an English teacher in a small girls'
boarding school in Brussels, finds herself caught unawares by an
intense, forbidden love, which she represses with a formidable, if
quiet, will until the intensity of her passion becomes almost unbearable
for her--and the reader who is sensitive to it.
Cass gives an excellent reading of the difficult 19th-century diction and sentence structure. With excellent phrasing and intonation intonation In phonetics, the melodic pattern of an utterance. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the voice (see tone), but in languages such as English, stress and rhythm are also involved. , quick pacing and clear enunciation enunciation (inun´sēā´sh  n),n an auxiliary function of teeth, particularly those in the anterior sector of the dental arch; the formation of sounds , her pleasant, elegant voice expresses the range of personalities and emotions. Villette reflects the biases and bigotries of the period in which it was written. Jacqueline Edwards, Bedford, MA S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. *--The asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. highlights exceptional books. |
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