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The Red Lily - Complete
Anatole France
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Although he loved her, or, rather, because he loved her with strength and confidence, he thought it his duty to resist her whims, which he judged absurd. Whenever he played the master, he succeeded with her; and, naively, he always ended by playing it.
"You know very well, Therese, that I wish to do nothing except to be agreeable to you. Don't be capricious with me."
"And why should I not be capricious? If I gave myself to you, it was not because I was logical, nor because I thought I must. It was because I was capricious."
He looked at her, astonished and saddened.
"The word is not pleasant to you, my friend? Well let us say that it was love. Truly it was, with all my heart, and because. . . Read More
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"She was young, she was loved, and she was discontented."
She is Therese, married 6 yrs to a politico who goes about
his business and expects her to do the same. She naturally
takes a lover. In France, marriage is a strategy to further
careers or status. It's expected that you find your "hots"
elsewhere.
Scritto nel 1894 e ambientatato fra Parigi e Firenze, il romanzo parla della storia d'amore fra Térèse Martin-Bellème e Jacques Dechartre.
Letto oggi forse sembrerà una normale relazione amorosa, ma a quei tempi scrivere esplicitamente delle sensazioni femminili deve essere stato piuttosto provocator
A few months ago, I found this book in the back of a dusty old bookstore in my hometown. I was looking through several unknown titles in the high shelves containing antique novels, and this one, upon quick research on my phone, caught my eye. Since this is my year of reading classics, I decided to i
Es un privilegio leer a Anatole France, ganador de Premio Nobel, a principios del siglo pasado.
Esta obra trata de amores apasionados, intensos que al final, después de tramas de celos y malos entendidos, cobran justicia. La prosa es exquisita, muy característica de los autores del siglo XIX, alguno
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