Alexandre Dumas der Jüngere: Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) (EBook, 1999, Project Gutenberg)
Dumas' semi-autobiographical novel of the love between a Parisian courtesan and a young man. It was the direct inspiration for Verdi's opera La traviata.
This is for the Project Gutenberg ebook, available for free here: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1608
eBook, 193 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1999 by Project Gutenberg.
Cannot recommend this highly enough. Great emotional sensitivity and intelligence, looking into the nuanced whys of the life of a Paris courtesan and the double standards she contends with. Opera lovers will recognise much of it, even if it does lack music ;) Free to download or read here: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1608 #ReadingOpera
