Corinne; ou, l'Italie by Madame de Staël
"Corinne; ou, l'Italie" by Madame de Staël is a novel published in 1807. It tells the love story between Corinne, a celebrated Italian poetess, and Lord Oswald Nelvil, a melancholic Scottish nobleman traveling through Italy. As Corinne guides Oswald through Rome's monuments and culture, their growing attraction confronts the tension between Italian freedom and English propriety. Both harbor mysterious reasons for resisting their feelings, setting the stage for a romance shadowed by
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About this eBook
| Author | Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 |
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| Contributor | Necker de Saussure, Albertine-Adrienne, 1766-1841 |
| Contributor | Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869 |
| Title |
Corinne; ou, l'Italie Nouvelle édition revue avec soin et précédée d'observations par Mme Necker de Saussure et M. Sainte-Beuve de l'Académie française |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinne,_or_Italy Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinne_ou_l%27Italie |
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Produced by Carlo Traverso, Laurent Vogel and the Distributed Proofreading team at DP-test Italia. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Nobility -- Scotland -- Fiction |
| Subject | Italy -- History -- 1789-1815 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women poets -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 60810 |
| Release Date | Nov 29, 2019 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 17, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 450 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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