Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 143
... Adolphe only in relation to himself and Ellénore , and Ellénore only in relation to Adolphe . Further , the drama has no background . The lovers move from Germany to Bohemia , from Bohemia to Poland , but we are shown nothing of these ...
... Adolphe only in relation to himself and Ellénore , and Ellénore only in relation to Adolphe . Further , the drama has no background . The lovers move from Germany to Bohemia , from Bohemia to Poland , but we are shown nothing of these ...
Page 149
... Adolphe among the supreme master- pieces of fiction , to what makes it , not only a good , but a great book . It has ... Adolphe's tragedy is in a sense a particular one ; it is largely due to that peculiar weakness of will , which ...
... Adolphe among the supreme master- pieces of fiction , to what makes it , not only a good , but a great book . It has ... Adolphe's tragedy is in a sense a particular one ; it is largely due to that peculiar weakness of will , which ...
Page 150
... Adolphe . For one thing , few people are capable of loving with the obsessing intensity of Ellénore . For another , it is rare to get entangled deeply with- out feeling more for the other party than Adolphe does . Rarely , in ...
... Adolphe . For one thing , few people are capable of loving with the obsessing intensity of Ellénore . For another , it is rare to get entangled deeply with- out feeling more for the other party than Adolphe does . Rarely , in ...
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