Camille

by Alexandre Dumas fils

Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

At a glance Camille is one of the great nineteenth-century novels of doomed love. Alexandre Dumas fils follows the relationship between Marguerite Gautier and Armand… The book moves quickly, but its emotional force comes from how relentlessly public… Themes The novel explores desire, sacrifice, class anxiety, respectability, gendered…

The novel explores desire, sacrifice, class anxiety, respectability, gendered double standards, illness, and the cost of being loved only on impossible terms.