Author:
Narrator: Roger May
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Naxos
Published: Oct 2019
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Unpublished at the time of her death, The Professor is the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte, and the seed of her later books, Jane Eyre and Villette .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...