The Professor by Charlotte Bronte [HARDCOVER REISSUE] 1997 • The Modern Library

The Professor by Charlotte Bronte

HARDCOVER REISSUE [1997] THE MODERN LIBRARY

Hardcove with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket shows some visible shelf wear, but is otherwise clean and fully in tact. Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself appears like new w/ two *small blemishes to gray cloth boards on front.   

ABOUT THE BOOK

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the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontë's death.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.