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.

Tracklist:

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

UPC: 9789626344682
Label: Naxos Audio Books
Release Date: 11.1.07
Format: CD

Bronte / Weston - Villette (CD)