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Villette
By Charlotte Bronte
Release 01/11/2007
Media Format CD
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Now considered by many to be Charlotte Bronte's best novel, though unlikely to eclipse Jane Eyre in fame and popularity, Villette is largely concerned with the experiences of Lucy Snowe in a girl's boarding school in a fictionalized Belgium. Lucy flees unhappiness in England only to find more abroad. Her love for Dr John unrequited, she slowly realizes that a deeper attachment is growing between her and her irascible domineering mentor and colleague, M. Paul Emanuel.
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Title: Villette
Release Date: 01/11/2007
Label: Naxos Audio Books
Number of Discs: 15
Media Format: CD
UPC: 9789626344682
Item #: NAXOS634468
- Disc 1 -
1 Chapter 1: Bretton
2 That Same Evening at Nine O'Clock
3 On Going to Bed An Hour Afterwards
4 Chapter 2: Paulina
5 Mr. Home Was a Stern-Featured
6 Graham Was at That Time
7 Chapter 3: The Playmates
8 Graham - Not Failing in His Way
9 It Happened That Graham Was Not
10 It Was Sufficiently Comical
11 Graham Forgot His Impatience
12 With These Words She Gathered Graham
13 Her Lip Trembled
14 When I Thought She Could Listen to Me
15 Chapter 4: Miss Marchmont
- Disc 2 -
1 Two Hot, Close Rooms Thus Became My World
2 I Love Memory To-Night, She Said
3 What Is the Matter? I Demanded
4 Chapter 5: Turning a New Leaf
5 I Stored Up This Piece of Casual Information
6 Chapter 6: London
7 My State of Mind, and All Accompanying
8 Towards Morning Her Discourse Ran
9 She Stared, Then Carelessly Ran on
10 I Was Not Sick Till Long After
11 Chapter 7: Villette
12 I Had Hoped We Might Reach Villette
13 He Tore a Leaf from His Pocket-Book
14 A Quarter of An Hour Passed
- Disc 3 -
1 Chapter 8: Madame Beck
2 Her Duty Done - I Felt That
3 When Attired, Madame Beck
4 As Madame Beck Ruled
5 Behind the House Was a Large Garden
6 Dites Donc, Said Madame Sternly
7 It Seems That Three Titled Belles
8 Chapter 9: Isidore
9 By Degrees, As I Acquired Fluency
10 Finding That She Carried the Thing
11 I Viewed Her from Top to Toe
12 That Will Do, Miss Fanshawe
13 Chapter 10: Dr. John
14 It Appeared She Did Not Find
15 No Sooner Did Fifine Emerge
- Disc 4 -
1 Chapter 11: The Portresss Cabinet
2 Had She, Indeed, Floating Visions
3 But While I Pondered
4 Chapter 12: The Casket
5 From the First I Was Tempted
6 To-Night, I Was Not So Mutinous
7 I Wish I Did Know Whom
8 He Stood Looking Down
9 Chapter 13: A Sneeze Out of Season
10 When I Vanished
11 On Revisiting My Drawers
12 Le Marmot Na Rien, Nest-Ce Pas?
13 He Instantly Tore the Billet
14 Chapter 14: The Fete
15 About This Time
- Disc 5 -
1 The Day Preceding Madames Fete
2 Being Dressed at Least a Couple
3 A Thousand Objections Rushed
4 In This Exercise the Afternoon Passed
5 In An Instant We Were Out of Doors
6 St. Pierre Sneered Again
7 No Sooner Was the Play Over
8 Madame Knew Something of the World;
9 I Suppose You Are Nobodys Daughter
10 The Answer Dr. John Would Have Given
11 I May, Perhaps, Look After Her a Little;
12 I Cut Short These Confidences Somewhat
13 Chapter 15: The Long Vacation
14 I Hesitate, Said He
15 My Heart Almost Died Within Me;
- Disc 6 -
1 The Cretin Being Gone
2 One Evening - I Was Not Delirious
3 Of Course, I Had Not Expected He Would Be
4 Chapter 16: Auld Lang Syne
5 Where Was I?
6 Reader; I Felt Alarmed!
7 Do You Like It, Polly? I Asked
8 Do Let Me Go Down-Stairs, Madam
9 To Say Anything on the Subject
10 For My Part, I Just Ventured to Inquire
11 Chapter 17: La Terrasse
12 She Left Me, and I Lay in Bed
13 What Did Madame Beck Mean
14 Lucy, You Ought to Travel for About
- Disc 7 -
1 Chapter 18: We Quarrel
2 To One Who Had Named Him Slave
3 Ginevra! He Thought Her So Fair
4 Chapter 19: The Cleopatra
5 His Mother Possessed a Good Development
6 It Seemed to Me That An Original and Good
7 M. Pauls Hair Was Shorn Close As Raven Down
8 How Did You Get on with Marie Broc?
9 Chapter 20: The Concert
10 By This Time We Had Got Into
11 Observing That Dr. Johns Attention
12 I Knew Another of These Seraphs
13 Ginevra Saw You, I Think?
14 The Concert Over, the Lottery
- Disc 8 -
1 We Did Not Easily Regain Our Seats
2 And Yet He Had Neither Forgiven
3 I Am So: Just As Rhadamanthus
4 Chapter 21: Reaction
5 If, Muttered She, If He Should Write
6 Ere Long the Bell Rang It's Reveillee
7 I Had Time to Bathe My Eyes
8 Go to Your Practising, Said I
9 A Fortnight Passed;
10 When I Re-Entered the Schoolroom
11 Chapter 22: The Letter
12 Say What You Will, Reader
13 He Asked Me, Smiling
14 They Will Not Come Here, I Answered;
- Disc 9 -
1 Chapter 23: Vashti
2 Mademoiselle Lucy! Cried Rosine
3 The Theatre Was Full
4 Vashti Was Not Good, I Was Told;
5 And Dr. John? Reader, I See Him Yet
6 Where Is Harriet? I Wish Harriet
7 Chapter 24: M. de Bassompierre
8 I Suppose Animals Kept in Cages
9 Soured and Listless, Miss Fanshawe Was
10 I Opened the Billet: By This Time
11 The Keen, Still Cold of the Morning
12 Ah! and You Remember the Old Time
13 Chapter 25: The Little Countess
14 Your Ladyship Wishes for the Tankard?
- Disc 10 -
1 Next Day, When We Were All Assembled
2 His Fair Little Daughter Did Not Take
3 Mrs. Bretton Asked Mr. Home
4 Paulina Mary Cast Once or Twice
5 Chapter 26: A Burial
6 Welcome I Endeavoured to Make It
7 Well, I Cleared Away the Ivy
8 As to Mary de Bassompierre
9 The Light in Which M. de Bassompierre
10 The Young Countess Was a Little Proud
11 Chapter 27: The Hotel Crecy
12 Do - Do Tell Me Who You Are?
13 I Do Not Think His Audience
14 Another Listener and Observer There Was
- Disc 11 -
1 He Had Assumed a Bantering Air
2 I Quite Well Recall It
3 Having Sought My Shawl
4 Chapter 28: The Watchguard
5 Not Being Quite Tall Enough
6 Still Gently Railing at Me
7 Vous Ne Voulez Pas
8 I Would Have Looked Up at Him
9 Chapter 29: Monsieurs Fete
10 Breakfast Being Over and Mass Attended
11 Monsieur, Said Mademoiselle St. Pierre
12 The Class Was Struck of a Heap
13 But Now at Last I Had Him:
14 You Will Be Like Me, Monsieur
- Disc 12 -
1 Chapter 30: M. Paul
2 When the Pang and Peril
3 Once, Upon His Preferring
4 Women of Intellect Was His Next Theme:
5 I Knew What the Result of Such
6 Chapter 31: The Dryad
7 Courage, Lucy Snowe!
8 This Idea of Keeping Down
9 It Pleased Me When You Took Them
10 Why Do You Shrink and Speak So Faintly?
11 Chapter 32: The First Letter
12 Papa Had Letters from Him Once
13 It Is True I Little Respect Women
14 Life, She Went on
15 Chapter 33: M. Paul Keeps His Promise
- Disc 13 -
1 And Now We Were in the Country
2 Mindful Always of His Religion
3 When Hot Noon Arrived
4 Chapter 34: Malevola
5 The Expression of Her Face
6 Down Washed the Rain
7 The Hero of His Tale
8 I, Daughter, Am Pere Silas
9 Chapter 35: Fraternity
10 Having Partially Collected
11 They Would Not Yet Let Me Go
12 I Am Judged, Said He
13 True; I Remember Now
14 Chapter 36: The Apple of Discord
- Disc 14 -
1 The Orange-Trees, and Several Plants
2 I Opened It. What Was It?
3 Through the Glass Door
4 (After a Pause:) Allons Donc!
5 I Found That Pere Silas
6 It Will Not Be. God Is Not with Rome
7 Chapter 37: Sunshine
8 Lucy, What Do You Mean? Said She
9 I Made No Answer
10 Ah, Sir! Did You Observe Her
11 She Shuddered
12 He Turned, and Waited Till I Said Amen!
13 Not Long After, Perhaps a Fortnight
14 Chapter 38: Cloud
15 That Girl Would Have Had a Right to Hate Me
- Disc 15 -
1 What Quiet Lessons I Had
2 Proceed, Said Madame;
3 All That Evening I Waited
4 This Was the Sole Flash-Eliciting
5 The Drug Wrought
6 Quiet Rue Fossette!
7 While Looking Up at the Image
8 Strange to Say, This Man Knew Me
9 Three Fine Tall Trees Growing Close
10 Chapter 39: Old and New Acquaintance
11 Justine Marie! What Was This?
12 We Have Looked at the City Belle
13 Still, Hint and Raillery Flew Thick
- Disc 16 -
1 These Oil-Twinkling Streets Are Very Still
2 Chapter 40: The Happy Pair
3 Do You Begin to Comprehend
4 In Winding Up Mistress Fanshawes Memoirs
5 Chapter 41: Faubourg Clotilde
6 Paul, Paul! Said a Womans Hurried Voice
7 The Route He Took Was By the Boulevards
8 Opening An Inner Door
9 The Trouble! I Cried
10 This Was True Enough:
11 I Spoke. All Escaped from My Lips
12 Chapter 42: Finis
13 And Now the Three Years Are Past
Now considered by many to be Charlotte Bronte's best novel, though unlikely to eclipse Jane Eyre in fame and popularity, Villette is largely concerned with the experiences of Lucy Snowe in a girl's boarding school in a fictionalized Belgium. Lucy flees unhappiness in England only to find more abroad. Her love for Dr John unrequited, she slowly realizes that a deeper attachment is growing between her and her irascible domineering mentor and colleague, M. Paul Emanuel.