Olivia (Strachey Dorothy)(Paperback)

I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name. --Andr Aciman Perfectly captures the breathless excitement of adolescent passion. --Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet The classic novel about a teenage girls infatuation with her headmistress at a boarding school in nineteenth-century Paris A Penguin Classic A groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love, Olivia--based loosely on the authors own life--was first published in 1949 under a pseudonym. It tells the story of Olivia, a sixteen-year-old girl who is sent from England to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher, Mademoiselle Julie, who
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