The Child of Pleasure

The Child of Pleasure

Title: The Child of Pleasure
Author: Gabriele D'Annunzio
Release: 2021-06-08
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Books, Literary Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical Romance
Size: 2423078
The Child of Pleasure (1889) is a novel by Gabriele D’Annunzio. The first in a series of three novels exploring the lives of the Italian bourgeoisie, The Child of Pleasure marked a shift in D’Annunzio’s early writing, which consisted of poems in the Symbolist tradition. Considered a central text of Italian Decadentism, the novel has earned comparisons to the work of Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysmans. “The next evening, he arrived at the palace a few minutes earlier than usual, with a wonderful gardenia in his button-hole and a vague uneasiness in his mind. His coupé had to stop in front of the entrance, the portico being occupied by another carriage, from which a lady was alighting. The liveries, the horses, the ceremonial which accompanied her arrival all proclaimed a great position. The Count caught a glimpse of a tall and graceful figure, a scintillation of diamonds in dark hair and a slender foot on the step.” From his home at the Palazzo Zuccari, Andrea Sperelli leads a life in pursuit of beauty, pleasure, and women. When an ex-lover returns to Rome following the breakdown of her marriage, he loses interest in his numerous affairs and longs to regain her love. But the past proves difficult to forget, the memories of betrayal and unhappiness no less painful after so many years apart. Wounded in a duel, Andrea is taken to a rural village to recuperate. There, he meets the beautiful Maria, who seems to promise a life of love and friendship. This edition of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s The Child of Pleasure is a classic work of Italian literature reimagined for modern readers.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

More Books from Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Lara Gochin Raffaelli & Alexander Stille
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio & August Nemo
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Stephen Sartarelli & Virginia Jewiss
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
grandi Classici & Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Antonio Fogazzaro, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni, Luigi Pirandello, Italo Svevo & Giovanni Verga
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Alessandro Manzoni, grandi Classici, Luigi Pirandello, Italo Svevo, Giovanni Verga & Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Lord Byron, Giacomo Leopardi, Marcel Proust, Henrik Ibsen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bram Stoker, Henry Fielding, George Eliot, William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis, Lewis Carrol, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, James Fenimore Cooper, Lew Wallace, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Laurence Sterne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, John Galsworthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rudyard Kipling, G. K. Chesterton, Washington Irvin, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Michail Lermontow, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Iwan Gontscharow, Nikolai Leskow, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Maxim Gorki, François Rabelais, Jean de La Fontaine, Blaise Pascal, Pierre Corneille, Molière, Jean Baptiste Racine, Charles Perrault, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Antoine-François Prevost, Marquis de Sade, François René Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Jules Verne, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Prosper Mérimée, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, André Gide, Arthur Schopenhauer, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Brothers Grimm, Gottfried Von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Hölderlin, Theodor Fontane, Gustav Freytag, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Stefan Zweig, Joseph von Eichendorff, Klaus Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johanna Spyri, Joseph Roth, Karl May, Robert Musil, Heinrich Mann, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Pirandello, Giosuè Carducci, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Knut Hamsun, Homer, Äsop, Herodot, Thukydides, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, LaoTse, Konfuzius, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Lukian, Petronius, Apuleius, Longos von Lesbos, Mark Aurel & Aurelius Augustinus