TY - BOOK AU - Constant,Benjamin TI - Adolphe : Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu: Suivi de quelques réflexions sur le théâtre allemand et sur la tragédie de Wallstein, et de l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation AV - PQ PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - Commitment (Psychology) -- Fiction KW - Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805. Wallenstein KW - Theater -- Germany KW - Militarism KW - Despotism KW - France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_(roman); Release date is 2009-02-14; Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Eric Vautier and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Adolphe: Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu" by Benjamin Constant is a novel published in 1816. This masterwork of psychological analysis chronicles the inexorable decay of a romantic relationship. Adolphe seduces Ellénore more from a desire to love than true passion, then finds himself trapped—unable to break free or truly commit. Caught between sincerity and self-deception, he drags them both toward destruction. The story unfolds as a manuscript found by chance, revealing one man's devastating confession about the misery of the human heart. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28078 ER -