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Streszczenie książki Adriani
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A valet keeps a journal on a master who sings at night, and a widow in white listens from a ruined house.
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Adriani — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 4 h3 h 10 min fast, 4 h 45 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 57 400
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1854by George Sand
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Adriani in short
Adriani follows a singer who hides his name and a widow who hides from the world. A valet's journal, two long letters and a stern family castle frame their meeting. Music is the bridge, first through a song heard across a hill, then through a piano in a ruined house.
What Adriani is about
What do you do when you serve a master you cannot read? In Adriani, a valet named Comtois keeps a journal on the gentleman who hired him in Lyon. The man gives no title, receives no visitors and sings Italian arias at bedtime. Behind the valet's comic suspicion lies a quieter story about a young woman in white who has shut herself away to mourn.
George Sand wrote this novel in 1853. She wants to show that great love belongs to strong, mature people who live fully in the world, and not only to dreamers, loners and invalids. She tells it through letters, journals and a narrator who steps in to comment. You will meet the singer Adriani, the widow Laure and her meddling maid Toinette.
Dla kogo. This book is for readers who love letters and journals woven into a story, for music lovers, and for anyone who enjoys a tender romance in which kindness, honesty and art matter more than adventure.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A valet's journal follows a mysterious master
The story opens with a letter from Comtois to his wife. He has left a count's service and found a new post with a gentleman who calls himself only d'Argères. The man is handsome, polite and plainly rich, yet he gives no title and no hint of where he is going.
In his journal Comtois tests his master and gets nowhere. He tries calling him Count, then Marquis, and the gentleman only asks why. Comtois fears he serves an adventurer, then a madman, then a fortune hunter. The travelers reach Mauzères, the country house of Baron de West, and d'Argères confesses in a letter that he wants only trees, sun and idleness.
At dusk he sees a faint glow behind a vine-covered hill. It comes from a house where a young widow lives, and people say she is not in her right mind. Then a woman's voice and a piano carry on the breeze, singing the gondolier's lament from Otello, and d'Argères cannot sleep. At daybreak he climbs the hill and sees a wild garden, a dovecote without doves and rotting fruit. Strangers, like houses, often say their grief before they speak a word.
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Toinette tells the story of Laure and Octave
In the garden d'Argères meets Toinette, the widow's maid.
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A song at the piano breaks the silence
Laure invites the stranger to breakfast and then drifts away in thought, speaking as if her husband sat between them.
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One stormy night he tries to wake her heart
Days pass, and d'Argères spends hours at the piano while Laure walks in the garden, lost in a dream.
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Two letters cross and the widow flees
That night d'Argères writes a long letter for Laure.
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At Larnac the marquise meets her match
Adriani walks to Larnac, Laure's castle, kept in order by the marquise, her mother-in-law.
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He makes the Temple bloom and buys Mauzères
Adriani travels ahead to the Temple to surprise Laure.
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Love here is strength and not sickness
Sand's dedication states the book's first theme.
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Art, money and independence pull at the lovers
The second theme is the cost of living by art.
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Voices, letters and a teasing narrator tell the tale
The book is built from several voices.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Adriani A singer and composer who travels as d'Argères, prizes independence in art, and hopes to win a grieving widow's trust without asking for more than she can give.
- Laure de Monteluz A young widow in white who has withdrawn from the world, blames herself for an old sorrow, and fears loving again.
- Toinette Muiron Laure's devoted, talkative maid, who raised her, schemes for her happiness and meddles with the best intentions.
- Comtois Adriani's valet, who records his master's every oddity in a journal and misjudges him with great confidence.
- Baron de West A well-meaning poet and translator who owns Mauzères, hides his debts and longs for fame in Paris.
- The Marquise de Monteluz Laure's stern mother-in-law, who values rank, rules and religion and wants to keep the family name unchallenged.
- Descombes Adriani's old friend, once a painter, now a speculator who manages the singer's money with ambitious confidence.
How it ends (spoiler)
Adriani is ruined by his friend's speculation and signs with the Opera to pay his debts, leaving Laure without a clear farewell. She comes to Paris, hears his debut and kneels before him, asking only to learn to love him. Three years later they are married and live at Mauzères, now his, with their baby daughter Adrienne. He has paid every debt through his own work as a singer.
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Pytania o Adriani
What is Adriani by George Sand about?
It tells of a singer who hides his name and falls in love with a young widow living in solitude in the Vivarais. Her fear of loving again, her stern family and a question of money and art test whether their love can grow.
Who is Adriani in the novel?
Adriani is a singer and composer born in Naples to an Italian mother and a father who held diplomatic posts. He travels under his family name, d'Argères, to avoid fame. He values independence, and his songs first draw Laure out of her grief.
Why is the widow's house called La Désolade?
Local people give the house that name because of the young woman who lives there, who is said to be inconsolable. Its true name is the Temple, from an old Templar estate. The name shows how neighbors see her grief.
When did George Sand write Adriani and why?
She wrote it in 1853 at Nohant and dedicated it to an actress, Madame Albert Bignon. In the dedication she says she wants to show that great love can belong to strong, mature people in the real world.
What is the main message of Adriani?
The book suggests that love is a source of strength, not weakness. It also shows that honesty, patience and care can heal a grieving person, and that independence in art can be tested by money and family pressure.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Sand, George. Adriani. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/adriani.
Sand, G. (2026). Adriani. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/adriani (Original work published 1854)
Sand, George. Adriani. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/adriani.
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