The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"The Child of Pleasure" by Gabriele D'Annunzio is a novel written in 1889. Andrea Sperelli, a young Roman nobleman and aesthete, lives for art and the pursuit of pleasure. He finds himself caught between two women who represent opposing ideals: Elena Muti, a mysterious femme fatale, and Maria Ferres, pure and fragile. As Andrea attempts to possess both, his "double game" leads him toward inevitable ruin in this cornerstone work of Italian
Decadentism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938 |
|---|---|
| Commentator | Boyd, Ernest Augustus, 1887-1946 |
| Translator | Harding, Georgina |
| Translator | Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945 |
| Uniform Title | Il piacere. English |
| Title | The Child of Pleasure |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Piacere |
| Credits |
Produced by Chuck Greif, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 20015 |
| Release Date | Dec 4, 2006 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 851 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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