# The Naive and Sentimental Lover

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- Authors: [John le Carré](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-09-27
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction

## Description

Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.

## Editions

### The Naive and Sentimental Lover

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 16 h 55 min
- Narrated by: Samantha Phillips
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-811-5
- Published: 2025-02-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Naive and Sentimental Lover

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-729-5
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB

### The Naive and Sentimental Lover

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4132-245-1
- Published: 2018-09-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Naive and Sentimental Lover

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4132-244-4
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2018-09-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Naïve and Sentimental Lover

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-975-3
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2011-07-20
- Language: en_US