The Professor
Written by Charlotte Bronte
Narrated by Roger May
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Unpublished at the time of her death, The Professor is the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë, and the seed of her later books, Jane Eyre and Villette. The narrator of the tale, William Crimsworth, tells a story of courage and ambition among jealousy and envy: Orphaned from a young age, William rejects life in the clergy, and then as a tradesman, to the chagrin of his cruel uncles and elder brother. Instead he pursues a career in education and ends up in Brussels, where he meets student/teacher Francis Evans Henri, a half-English Swiss orphan, with whom he falls in love. However, their union is prevented by the jealousy of headmistress Mademoiselle Reuter, who has accidentally fallen in love with William herself...
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontë, born in 1816, was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, and one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists. She is the author of Villette, The Professor, several collections of poetry, and Jane Eyre, one of English literature's most beloved classics. She died in 1855.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Until now I had thought, I would always love Brontë, but this book was awful. Boring, the main character emotionally underdeveloped and the love story made me shiver in a bad way - especially when the professor thought that his wife needed sternness. He kept treating her as his pupil even after they were a couple and it was still portrayed as a loving match.