Two children raised in island innocence grow into a love that the wider world destroys.
Books mentioned in Paul and Virginia (1)
Telemachus by François Fénelon: “Thus, no book gave him so much pleasure as Telemachus, from the pictures it draws of pastoral life, and of the passions which are most natural to the human breast.”
Books that mention Paul and Virginia (4)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: “They remind me of--what are their names--Laon and Cythna. Also of Paul and Virginia a little.”
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: “She had read "Paul and Virginia," and she had dreamed of the little bamboo-house, the nigger Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the sweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for you on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand, bringing you a bird's nest.”
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens: “…by the whole society of China without setting myself right when I have the opportunity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be returned and which was returned without note or comment, not that I mean to say you could have written to me…”
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott: “she asked, flitting over the leaves of "Paul and Virginia," that lay on the table.”