Lamiel

“Stendhal's last, unfinished novel: Lamiel, a foundling brought up by a pious beadle and his wife in a Norman village, is taken up by a great lady and educated in cynicism by a clever, embittered hunchbacked doctor. Bored by the petty world around her and determined to know life for herself, she runs away to Paris in search of something worth loving — and finds it, at last, in a criminal.”