TY - BOOK AU - Constant,Benjamin AU - Onerva,L. TI - Adolphe AV - PQ PY - 2020/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - Commitment (Psychology) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe; Release date is 2020-04-03; Anna Siren and Tapio Riikonen; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Adolphe: Erään tuntemattoman papereista löydetty tarina" by Benjamin Constant is a novel first published in 1816. It follows Adolphe, a melancholic young man who embarks on a calculated seduction of Ellénore, an older Polish woman. Their affair unexpectedly becomes an all-consuming love that isolates them from society. As Adolphe grows anxious about sacrificing his future, he finds himself trapped between duty and devotion. The novel eschews external descriptions to focus intensely on inner emotions and psychological states, offering a piercing examination of romantic entanglement and its consequences. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61743 ER -