Corinne

by Madame de Stael · 1807

An improvising Italian poetess loves a melancholy Scottish nobleman who cannot free himself from northern duty.

Books that mention Corinne (4)

• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “Take back your _Corinne_," said Maggie, drawing a book from under her shawl.”
• The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf: “It is 'Corinne,' Madame de Staël's 'Corinne.' I do not want them to go by auction.”
• Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad: “And Madame de S-- was very far from resembling the gifted author of _Corinne_.”
• Roderick Hudson by Henry James: “Last winter Mary used to read 'Corinne' to me in the evenings,”