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  • Adolphe and the Red Notebook

    In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able ... Read more

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  • Adolphe

    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 ... Read more

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  • Adolphe

    Translated by Carl Wildman ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    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, ... Read more

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  • De l’esprit de conquête et de l’usurpation dans leur rapports avec la civilisation européenne

    Plusieurs écrivains, entraînés par l’amour de l’humanité dans de louables exagérations, n’ont envisagéla guerre que sous ses côtés funestes. Je reconnois volontiers ses avantages.Il n’est pas vrai que la guerre soit toujours un mal. À de certaines époques de l’espèce humaine, elleest dans la nature de l’homme. Elle favorise alors le développement de ses plus belles et de ses plusgrandes facultés. ... Read more

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  • The Red Notebook

    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating Constant’s eccentric and peripatetic education, his introduction to European high society and the kindling of his literary ambitions as well as his often comic and calamitous early experiences with the opposite sex and the development of his ruinous gambling habit.Part ... Read more

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    by Henry James ...
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  • Andre Cornelis

    by Bourget,Paul ...
    An entangling narrative about love, revenge and despair. The novel revolves around the life of the protagonist whose life is centered on avenging the death of his father. The shattering of childhood fantasies and the anguish that follows is captured in a heart-rending manner. Captivating! ... Read more

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  • The Limitations Of Dickens & Other Essays

    by Henry James ...
    Series Book 2 - Essays Of Henry James
    Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 as is regarded as one of the great literary figures of 19th Century writing. Born in New York, he moved between there and Europe, being tutored in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading literature to studying law and settled the next year in England. He became a British subject ... Read more

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  • Hell

    A young man, tired of life and love, indifferent to the people and world around him, takes up a room in a Parisienne boarding house. Noises from the adjoining room draw his attention to a hole in the wall, and he observes its occupants through it. He becomes obsessed with the individual episodes of human life that play out before his eyes; love, adultery, incest, childbirth, death, thievery and ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Liaisons

    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an ... Read more

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  • Love Letters of Great Men and Women

    From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.For some of these great men, love is a ‘delicious poison’ (William Congreve); for others, ‘a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music’ (Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat of the sun ... Read more

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  • Reveries of the Solitary Walker

    Translated by Peter France ...
    After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner ... Read more

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