Title: Corinne
First published: 1800
Description: "Corinne, or Italy (1807).  A romantic novel by Mme de Staël.  Oswald Nevil, and English lord, recuperating in Rome, meets the famous poetess Corinne, who, half-English and half-Italian, has exiled herself from her native England.  They fall in love, and Nevil wishes to marry Corinne, but she hesitates, fearing the rigidity of the English life she once knew; her present unconventional life is too dear to her.  Oswald, forced to return to England, later gives in to the pressures of his social ilieu and marries the wholly English Lucile, half sister of Corinne.  When she learns of the marriage, Corinne dies of grief.  idealistic and passionate, Corinne is a psychological study of two tormented souls and is a celebrated description of Italian civilization and mores." - - from Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition
Subjects: Romantic, Italy, Psychological Study, England, poets, Botany, Description and travel, Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, England, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Description, Classic Literature, Travel, Fiction, general, French literature, Translations into English, Families, Jehovah's Witnesses, Marriage, Doctrines, Plants, Kyōto Daigaku. Karakoramu Hinzūkushi Gakujutsu Tankentai (1955), Family relationships, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Religious aspects, Italy, fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Classification, Nomenclature, Early works to 1800
Places: Italy, England, Scotland
People: Mme de Staël, Oswald Nevil, Corinne, Lucile
Time periods: Written and set in 1807