Adolphe (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Benjamin Constant
- First Published: 1816
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Setting: Germany and Poland
- Principal Characters: Adolphe, Ellénore
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Eighteenth century, Duty, Human behavior, Germany or German people, Poland or Polish people, Sacrifice, Nobility, Royal courts or courtiers
- Locales: Italy, Poland, Göttingen, Germany
The Story:
Having creditably completed his studies in Göttingen in spite of a somewhat dissipated life, Adolphe was expected, after a preliminary period of travel, to take his place in the governmental department of which his father, the minister of a German electorate, was the head. His father had great hopes for his son and was inclined to be lenient about his indiscretions, but because of an inherent timidity shared by father and son—a timidity combined, on the part of the father, with a defensive outward coldness—no real sympathy was possible between the two. The...
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