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Elective Affinities

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1809
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 300

A settled husband and wife take in a close friend and a young ward, and the four pair off in new combinations like chemicals swapping partners, until a drowned child and a young woman's private penance end the marriage in grief.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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