I started reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte

[pretty_plant]

This book is really making appreciate more footnotes. I love books that know that I am ignorant in a lot of subjects and just give me all the details and information somewhere else. Villette has too much French in the novel. I didn't expect that it would have this much French when I started reading it. And the book has no translation so I am now trying to read the French parts by using Google Translate.

I read Jane Eyre before but the book was translated from English into a different language so all the French parts were also translated and made my experiences less difficult.

Comments

[regshoe]

Oh dear, those footnotes are certainly helpful, aren't they! I actually gave up on Villette several years ago for just this reason, and ever since I've been meaning to track down an edition which translates the French in footnotes. :D (There's French in Shirley, too, but not so much that you can't follow the plot without understanding it, so I just powered through that).

[pretty_plant]

You can try reading an ebook and just google translate everything that is French.