Julie, or the New Heloise

“'Letters of two lovers living in a little town at the foot of the Alps.' Julie d'Étange, a baron's daughter, and her tutor, a young commoner later called Saint-Preux, fall in love beside Lake Geneva; her father forbids the match and gives her to the wise, cold M. de Wolmar. Years later, Wolmar invites the former lover to live with them at Clarens — and a novel of passion becomes a novel of virtue, friendship and faith, until Julie's death reveals what her heart had never ceased to feel.”