La Chartreuse De Parme

Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, runs off to fight for Napoleon and wanders, bewildered, across the field of Waterloo. Back in Italy his aunt and her powerful lover try to steer his career through the intrigues of the little court of Parma. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.