Adolphe

Author(s)

• Constant, Benjamin
• Tancock, Leonard William

Bibliographic Information

Adolphe

Benjamin Constant ; translated with an introduction by Leonard Tancock

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1964

Other Title

Adolphe

Note

Translation of: Adolphe

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA11832836
• ISBN:
  • 0140441344
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Pages/Volumes: 124 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646