The orphaned Englishman William Crimsworth makes his own way as a teacher in Brussels, where he falls in love with the poor but resolute pupil-teacher Frances Henri.
Books mentioned in The Professor (3)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “She had selected "Paradise Lost" from her shelf of classics, thinking, I suppose, the religious character of the book best adapted it to Sunday; I told her to begin at the beginning, and while she read Milton's invocation to that heavenly muse, who on the "secret top of Oreb or Sinai" had taught…”
Othello by William Shakespeare: “…Monsieur is pleased to translate it ESPRIT-FORT) your mountain maid will some night smother her Breton-bretonnant, even as your own Shakspeare's Othello smothered Desdemona."”
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith: “The "livre de lecture" was the "Vicar of Wakefield," much used in foreign schools because it is supposed to contain prime samples of conversational English; it might, however, have been a Runic scroll for any resemblance the words, as enunciated by Jules, bore to the language in ordinary use…”
Books that mention The Professor (1)
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “The tale concerns a linguist known only as "the Professor," who travels into the North African desert in search of exotic languages.”