The Professor - Penguin Classics Author:Charlotte Bronte, Juliet Stevenson The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Also included in this edition... more » is Emma, Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel. Both works are drawn from the original Clarendon texts.« less