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The Lady of the Camellias (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2013
by Dumas fils, Alexandre
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- Title The Lady of the Camellias (Penguin Classics)
- Author Dumas fils, Alexandre
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2013-06-25
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00HIHK_ns
- ISBN 9780143107026 / 014310702X
- Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.19 x 0.66 in (19.61 x 13.18 x 1.68 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Paris (France), Courtesans - France - Paris
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013005491
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation
"One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Rudolph Valentino, Isabelle Huppert, and Colin Firth), The Lady of the Camellias itself was inspired by the real-life nineteeth-century courtesan Marie Duplessis, the lover of the novel’s author, Alexander Dumas fils.
Known to all as the Lady of the Camellias” because she is never seen without her favorite flowers, Marguerite Gautier, the most beautiful, brazen, and expensive courtesan in all of Paris. But despite having many lovers, she has never really loveduntil she meets Armand Duval, young, handsome, and hopelessly in love with her.
Marguerite and Armand are the kind of bright, self-destructive young things we still read about in magazines, watch on-screen, or brush up against today.” Liesl Schillinger, from the Note on the Translation
Known to all as the Lady of the Camellias” because she is never seen without her favorite flowers, Marguerite Gautier, the most beautiful, brazen, and expensive courtesan in all of Paris. But despite having many lovers, she has never really loveduntil she meets Armand Duval, young, handsome, and hopelessly in love with her.
Marguerite and Armand are the kind of bright, self-destructive young things we still read about in magazines, watch on-screen, or brush up against today.” Liesl Schillinger, from the Note on the Translation
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- New York Review of Books, 09/26/2013, Page 8