Graziella

by Alphonse de Lamartine · first published 1852

Graziella is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de Lamartine. It tells of a young French man who falls for a fisherman's granddaughter – the eponymous Graziella – during a trip to Naples, Italy; they are separated when he must return to France, and she soon dies. Based on the author's experiences with a tobacco-leaf folder while in Naples in the early 1810s, Graziella was first written as a journal and intended to serve as commentary for Lamartine's poem "Le Premier Regret". First serialised as part of Les Confidences beginning in 1849, Graziella received popular acclaim.

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Genre:

Autobiography

Original language:

French

Year page:

1852