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"La dame aux camélias" by Alexandre Dumas is a novel first published in 1848. Based on the author's own love affair with a courtesan, it tells the tragic story of Marguerite Gautier, a consumptive courtesan, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois who fall deeply in love. When they retreat to the countryside together, Armand's father intervenes, fearing scandal will ruin the family's reputation. The novel explores forbidden love constrained by society's moral expectations in nineteenth-century Paris. ... Read more
About this eBook
| Author | Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895 |
|---|---|
| Title | La dame aux camélias |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_the_Camellias |
| Credits | Walter Debeuf |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Tuberculosis -- Patients -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 2419 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2000 |
| Last Update | Apr 29, 2022 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 27138 downloads in the last 30 days. |
Original page: gutenberg.org/ebooks/2419