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Claire d'Albe - Cohen, Margaret (Translated by)
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Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Fr???d???ric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and secluded Loire Valley, the friendship between Claire and Fr???d???ric gradually develops into a forbidden passion. Claire d'Albe (1799) was audacious in its day for its representation of adulterous love as a positive act of self-fulfillment. As the volume editor, Margaret Cohen, indicates, Sophie Cottin's best-selling ...

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Claire d'Albe 2002, Modern Language Association of America, New York

ISBN-13: 9780873529266

Paperback