Villette (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 19. jan. 2018 - 652 sider Excerpt from Villette Dome the year which followed the publication of Shirley, ' Charlotte Bronte seems to have been content to rest from literary labour - save for the touching and remarkable Preface that she contributed in the autumn of the year to the reprint of 'wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, ' - which had been happily rescued from Mr. Newby and were safe in Mr. Smith's hands. We hear nothing of any new projects. After the great success of Shirley' and J aneeyre, ' indeed, she turned back to think of the still unprinted manuscript of The Professor, ' and to plans of how work already done might be turned to account, now that the public knew her and the way was smoothed. Towards the end of 1850, or in the first days of 1851, she wrote a fresh preface to The Professor} and suggested to her pub lishers that they should at last venture upon its publi cation. They did not apparently refuse; but they ad vised her against the project; and as Mr. Nicholls says in a note which he added to his wife's Preface, on the publication of the Professor after her death, she then made use of the materials in a subsequent work Vil latte. There is an interesting and, for the most part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
