The Professor

New York: The Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1997. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book, but there is a former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the recto of the rear endpaper; the jacket shows just faint traces of some surface-scuffing on the front panel]. The first novel completed by Charlotte Brontë, which remained unpublished until 1857, two years after her death. Based on her own experiences as a student in Brussels in 1842 and "told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator" in any of her works, the book "formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society [and features] an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine." .