Ebook: Adolphe
Author: Constant Benjamin
- Tags: Commitment (Psychology) -- Fiction, France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction, FICTION -- General, Commitment (Psychology), Manners and customs, France
- Series: Art of the novella., Melville House classics.
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Melville House
- City: Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Language: English
- epub
We are such volatile creatures that we finally feel the sentiments we feign. First published in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a young man with all the privileges and advantages of a noble birth, bt who's still haunted by the meaninglessness of life. He seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore, a fictionalized version of Madame de Stael. The young Adolphe, inexperienced in Read more...