The Lady with the Camellias

An enduring novel about great love and terrible tragedy.
The plot of the novel became the basis for the play of the same name, which was subsequently adapted into films many times and served as the libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's brilliant opera "La Traviata." The novel about the love of a beautiful, terminally ill "queen of the demi-monde" and a young aristocrat — a love passionate, tragic, and inevitably doomed — rivals the drama of "La Traviata" and even surpasses the best adaptations.