Ten Years' Exile (Annotated)

Ten Years' Exile is at once memoir, political indictment, and travel narrative, recounting Madame de Staël's enforced removals under Napoleon and her passage through Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, and England. Written in a lucid, impassioned prose that joins classical moral analysis to Romantic inwardness, the work situates private suffering within the larger crisis of European liberty. Its...