Camille (La Dame Aux Camilias)

A young Parisian falls passionately in love with Marguerite, a celebrated courtesan dying of consumption, in a doomed romance based on the author’s own affair. Tender and tragic, the novel exposes the cruelty beneath fashionable society’s treatment of a ‘fallen’ woman. It inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata and countless stage and screen adaptations.