{"product_id":"2940170447558","title":"The Professor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/i\u003e was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's \u003ci\u003eAgnes Grey\u003c\/i\u003e and Emily's \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death. Like \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e (1853), \u003ci\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/i\u003e is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society. Bronte's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine. \u003ci\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/i\u003e endures today as both a harbinger of Bronte's later novels and a compelling listen in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162020856048,"sku":"2940170447558","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170447558_p0.jpg?v=1763710010","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170447558","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}