{"product_id":"professor-2","title":"Professor","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316622893438,"sku":"NW9781847497178","price":9.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781847497178.jpg?v=1778701155","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/professor-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}