The Book That Every Woman Should Read

It is a strong and sensitive book, full of conflicting feelings, life lessons, and a drama that will touch the soul of each woman. The Lady with the Camels, the work of Alexandre Dumas's son, is the book that every woman should read.

The book that any woman should read… La dame aux camellias- French said or Lady with camellias.

I'm not going to make this article a review in which you don't understand if the author liked the book or not. What I mean is more than a review, it is what I have experienced through these pages that I think can reach and especially bring a change in the life of any woman of any age.

The action of the book

The action of the book is not an alien one that would require reading 150 pages until you get to know the name of the protagonist. The action is simple: she, a courtesan in Paris - a woman from whom you could hardly take your eyes off and who frequented the theater and the opera, and he, a young man who falls in love irretrievably with the one who lived only among diamonds, expensive gifts, and camellias.

Without trying to say too much, to keep the element of surprise, the novel presents the tragedy of Marguerite who falls madly in love with a man, but the past seems to follow her at every step.

I would like every woman or young woman on the globe to have this book in her hand. Why?

The story is not just about a courtesan from the French capital. The story is of a woman, that each of us, who lives between two parallel worlds being drawn from time to time.

And the tragedy comes from the fact that after so much bitter time, after so many tens maybe even hundreds of men, he finally falls in love. And she falls in love real, strong, and with all that is left of her soul.

However, it seems that fate does not want to stick with her, always reminding her of the ghosts of the past and the fact that in the eyes of thousands of Parisians she will be nothing but the woman of any man.

Who was Marie Duplessis, the inspiration behind the character Marguerite

"It is said that no one who passed by her considered her a prostitute."

Marie Duplessis was born in 1824 into severe poverty. She moved to Paris at the age of 15 and soon became a courtesan for a lot of people with money and power. She was self-educated, so she passed for a well-read and stylish woman.

She was the inspiration for one of the most beautiful Romanian romances in history, The Lady with the Camellias, but also for Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera "La Traviata".

One of her lovers declared after she passed away: "When I think of her, a mysterious chord sounds in my heart, the ancient elegy."

It's hard for me to think about what's in a woman's soul like her. It's hard for me to detach myself from myself and put myself in the shoes of a woman who wants to get out from under the cloth where she has been so far and it's impossible for her.

Every page of this book is a lesson. Every word means something. Every gesture, every color.

Why should any woman read it?

It's simple. To understand empathy.

21st-century women and young people lack empathy and especially sympathy for other women. And I believe that through Marguerite we can better understand what is in the soul of those we put in the corner, whom we look at skeptically or whom we mock.

This novel brings us closer to our feminine entity, to our essence. Who are we in the evening after we put on our nightgown? Who we are when we put our head on the pillow, in an empty bed - no makeup on the face, hair fixative, or pretentious clothes. Who are we, beyond social status?

We are people.

We have a soul and we have feelings and we are sensitive and we need someone to think of us.

I think women tend to forget that.

And I think the world would be a better place if women remembered that before they were women, mothers, sisters, husbands, and so on - they are people immersed in a great galaxy of questions, frustrations, thoughts, and worries.