Camille (Annotated)

Camille, better known in its original French as La Dame aux Camélias, is a landmark of nineteenth-century sentimental realism, dramatizing the doomed love between the courtesan Marguerite Gautier and the young bourgeois Armand Duval. Written with lucid restraint and theatrical intensity, the novel blends romantic pathos with social observation, exposing the moral hypocrisies of Parisian high socie...