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Sapho: Parisian Manners by Alphonse Daudet

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5.0

This learning novel retraces, very traditionally, an initiation into love. The peculiarity is that experienced this first love with a woman whose last love will be. The hero lives this amorous passion for persuading that he can free himself from it by the effect of his will, but he was insidiously grabbing by the comfort of everyday life, the couple's habits. Love warms, but it remains. It becomes the toy of Sapho - the superb figure of a courtesan who evolves in the Parisian bohemian of the XIXth century. Daudet's style is remarkable.
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