Adolphe and The Red Notebook by Benjamin Constant Paperback Book 9781434440198

Benjamin Constant 17671830 was a Swissborn French nobleman writer and politician The only novel published by Constant during his lifetime Adolphe is the story of a young indecisive mans disastrous love affair with an older woman of uncertain virtue believed to be based on Constants affair with Anna Lindsay who describes the affair in her correspendence The Red Notebook translated by Norman Cameron is fictionalized version of Constants youth education and travels to England