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Oxford, United Kingdom: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1989. Text in French. Biographical Note, Preface and Introduction in English. Softcover with light creases along spine and contents in very good clean condition. Page edges are slightly yellowed. T. First Edition. paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.
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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.
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- Title Constant: Adolphe
- Author Benjamin Constant; C. Courtney
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 127
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Date March 1990
- ISBN 9780631162056 / 0631162054
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88035113
- Dewey Decimal Code 843.6
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