Adolphe
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 December 1980
Summary
Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. Adolphe is enraptured and gradually wears down her resistance to his declarations of love. But as they embark on an intense and tortured affair, Ellenore gives way to a flood of emotion that only serves to repel her younger lover - yet he cannot bring himself to leave her and his procrastination can only bring tragedy. Partly inspired by Constant’s own stormy affair with Madame de Stael, Adolphe (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140441345 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140441344 |
| Author: | Benjamin Constant, Leonard Tancock |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 December 1980 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 133mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Benjamin Constant
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was a French-Swiss political writer and novelist. He combined a lively political career with a fertile literary output, while entertaining a series of liaisons with some of Frances most prominent women. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism.
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