All her force, and it is the more tremendous for being constricted, goes into the assertion, 'I love. I hate. I suffer. '''-- Virginia Woolf. The Daily Telegraph's, Lucy Hughes-Hallett argues that Villette is greater than Bront*'s most famous work Jane Eyre. She states that the novel is ``an astonishing piece of writing, a book in which phantasmagorical set pieces alternate with passages of minute psychological exploration, and in which Bront*'s marvellously flexible prose veers between sardonic wit and stream-of-consciousness, in which the syntax bends and flows and threatens to dissolve completely in the heat of madness, drug-induced hallucination and desperate desire.''
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