{"product_id":"adolphe-isbn-9781935554097","title":"Adolphe","description":"\u003cb\u003eWe are such volatile creatures that we finally feel the sentiments we feign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1816, \u003ci\u003eAdolphe\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a  young man with all the privileges and advantages of a noble birth, bt  who's still haunted by the meaninglessness of life. He seeks distraction  in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore, a  fictionalized version of Madame de Stael. The young Adolphe,  inexperienced in love, falls for her unexpectedly and falters under the  burden of the illicit love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ron Rosenbaum, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Small wonders.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime Out London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[F]irst-rate…astutely selected and attractively packaged…indisputably great works.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adam Begley, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"I’ve  always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it’s  the  handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets  me  here, one of many in the small publisher’s fine 'Art of the Novella'   series.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"The Art of the  Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these  singular,  distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough  to be  portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed—tiny  little  objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—KQED (NPR San Francisco)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Some  like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an   independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you...   elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFrench politician and writer Benjamin Constant combined an extremely  lively political career with fertile literary output and an enthusiastic  series of liaisons with some of France's most prominent women. Among  them were two of his mistresses, Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier, as  well as his two wives.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300745335013,"sku":"NP9781935554097","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781935554097.jpg?v=1767721066","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/adolphe-isbn-9781935554097","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}