'all the light we cannot see'
a midsummer nights dream
a streetcar named desire
A01=Benjamin Constant
all quiet on the western front
Author_Benjamin Constant
barnes and noble leatherbound
books fiction
catcher in the rye
Category=FBC
charles bukowski
complete works of shakespeare
count of monte cristo
eq_bestseller
eq_classics
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
far from the madding crowd
great expectations
grief is the thing with feathers
gullivers travels
huckleberry finn
lord of the flies
michael moorcock
one flew over the cuckoos nest
the brothers karamazov
the lonely londoners
the secret garden
william shakespeare
wuthering heights
Product details
- ISBN 9780140441345
- Weight: 102g
- Dimensions: 133 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1980
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 Staël, Adolphe (1816) is a penetrating psychological depiction of love that plumbs the depths of the passions, motives and inconsistencies of the human character.
