{"product_id":"9781847497178","title":"The Professor","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Professor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Charlotte Brontë\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of his brother's mill, he decides to accept a position as an English teacher at a boys' school in Brussels. When his career leads him to take up an additional post at a girls' school nearby, William becomes emotionally involved with the manipulative headmistress of the establishment, Mademoiselle Reuter. The tensions rise until one of his pupils and fellow teachers – for whom he has tender feelings – is suddenly dismissed and is nowhere to be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on Charlotte Brontë's own autobiographical experience in Brussels as a teacher and only published posthumously, \u003ci\u003eThe Professor \u003c\/i\u003ewas Charlotte Brontë's first attempt at full-length fiction and bears all the hallmarks of her future work, with touches of genius and an unparalleled sharpness of style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781847497178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Alma Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40706866938062,"sku":"9781847497178","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c9d6eeaa-679f-42c1-a810-9f385c59e294.jpg?v=1640582388","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781847497178","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}