Elective affinities

Description:

"Charlotte and Eduard, aristocrats with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious will, all four a drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical equation..."-- Publisher description.

subjects: German literature,  Fiction, general,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  German fiction,  Aristocracy (Social class),  Fiction,  Translations into English

Times: 18th century