Adolphe |
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Author:
| Constant, Benjamin Mauldon, Margaret |
Editor:
| Coleman, Patrick |
Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-283927-5 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2001 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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The young Adolphe falls unexpectedly in love with an older, married woman, and finds himself incapable of resolving an increasingly tragic situation. Written in a lucidly analytic yet discreetly emotional style, Adolphe (1816) distills the lessons of Constant's own experiences in love, but it also reflects his anxieties about the prospects for any kind of commitment, political or religious as well as emotional, in a disenchanted world.
The young Adolphe falls unexpectedly in love with an older, married woman, and finds himself incapable of resolving an increasingly tragic situation. Written in a lucidly analytic yet discreetly emotional style, Adolphe (1816) distills the lessons of Constant's own experiences in love, but it also reflects his anxieties about the prospects for any kind of commitment, political or religious as well as emotional, in a disenchanted world.