Product Description
The Professor
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
Charlotte Bronte's first novel' TheProfessor, is narrated from
the viewpoint of an ambitious and self.made man.
Rejecting his aristocratic inheritance William Crimsworth goes to
Brussels to find his fortune. He takes a job teaching at a boarding
school for young ladies, where he begins a flirtation with Zoraide
Reuter, who, out ofjealousy, attempts to frustrate his courtship of
Frances Henri, an attractive young woman determined to make
her way in the world.
lnThe Professor Charlotte Brontd holds up to scrutiny the
Victorian ideals of self-he1p and individualism. The result is an
unusual love story, and a novel profoundly critical of a society in
which the relationships between men and women are reduced to
power struggles.
ISBN 0-14-062142-3