Villette (novel) Villette (novel) Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. "Villette" was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by "The Professor" (her posthumously published first novel, of which "Villette" is a reworking), "Jane Eyre", and "Shirley". In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a "pensionnat"
In the Name of the Father (novel) In the Name of the Father (novel) In the Name of the Father is the short first novel by award winning Italian American writer Tony Ardizzone. First published in 1978, the novel is a minimalist work and is the coming-of-age story of Tonto Schwartz. The novel placed Ardizzone amongst the ranks of minimalist writers like Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie, though his later work was not minimalist. A novel deeply in the American grain that tells the story of the funny and painful transit to manhood accomplished (and endured) by Tonto Schwartz. It's the story of an emotional search for