The Lady of the Camellias

The theme of The Lady of the Camellias is a love story between Marguerite Gautier, a "e;demi-mondaine"e; ("e;courtisane"e; in the original French, i.e., a woman "e;kept"e; by various lovers, frequently more than one at a time) suffering from tuberculosis, and a young provincial bourgeois, Armand Duval. The narration of the love story is told by Duval himself to the (unnamed...