The Professor

Cast off by his own family and scorned by the cotton-mill aristocracy he refuses to flatter, William Crimsworth crosses to Brussels to make his own way — first as a lowly clerk, then as a schoolmaster navigating the hothouse rivalries of a girls' pensionnat, where his employer's calculating charm hides a dangerous agenda. Written before Jane Eyre but published only after her death, The Professor is Charlotte Brontë's first, leanest experiment in the themes that made her famous: pride, poverty, and a love earned through equality rather than rescue. The quiet blueprint for everything she wrote next.

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Data di uscita

Ebook: 13 luglio 2026