Corinne

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Giovanni Antonio Guardi, Francesco Guardi and Canaletto. An improvising poet crowned at the Capitol loves an English peer who cannot marry a woman the world admires, and the two countries in the book are as much characters as the lovers. Madame de Staël published Corinne in 1807 while exiled by Napoleon, who understood exactly what it was arguin...