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Can I read The Professor on EtoBox?
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Professor about?
Charlotte Brontë's first ever book, The Professor, is a love story full of feeling and emotion told from a male viewpoint - a must read for Brontëfans. The first book ever to emerge from Charlotte Brontë's pen, The Professor is an autobiographically inspired romantic love story set in Brussels. Thinly veiling her personal experiences, Brontëunusually uses a male narrator, making this a fascinating and unique read. With the action played out in dark boarding-school classrooms and windy streets, Brontëweaves a tale of much emotion - one that foresees the longer, better-known saga Villette that was to follow many years later. Fresh out of Eton, orphaned William Crimsworth finds himself in an unenviable situation - a clerk to his little-educated, caddish mill-owner brother - until opportunity presents itself for a complete change of fortune. Crimsworth is offered a job in Brussels as a teacher in an all-girls boarding school, run by a M Pelet. Later headhunted to a better position by the beguiling Zoraide Reuter, Crimsworth believes himself slightly enamoured with his new employer - only to discover her secretly and perfidiously engaged to M Pelet. His new position almost intolerable,
Who reads The Professor?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Charlotte Brontë
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780943381
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.43 / 5 (400 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14