| Adolphe Contributor(s): Constant, Benjamin (Author), Wildman, Carl (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1935554093 ISBN-13: 9781935554097 Publisher: Melville House Publishing OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Regency - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010011975 |
| Series: Art of the Novella |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.06" W x 7.06" (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 love, falls for her unexpectedly and falters under the burden of the illicit love. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. |