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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied - Sleep never came!''Based on Charlotte Bronte''s own experiences as a governess in Brussels, her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls'' boarding school in the town of Villette. Finding the students challenging and ex...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`The Professor'' is Charlotte Bronte''s first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death. Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterisation she perfected in her later works, such as `Jane Eyre'', the novel is Bronte''s portrayal of a love story from a male perspective.Writing from the point of view of orphaned young teacher, William Crimswo...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.\\''Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte\\''s only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline, who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Strug...