Name: The Lady of the Camellias (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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Author: Dumas, Alexandre
ISBN: 9781774769317

portada The Lady of the Camellias (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alexandre Dumas

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781774769317

Synopsis "The Lady of the Camellias (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)"

The Lady of the Camellias is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Marguerite is nicknamed la dame aux camélias (French for ''the lady of the camellias'') because she wears a red camellia when she is menstruating and unavailable for sex and a white camellia when she is available to her lovers.The novel was subsequently adapted by Alexandre Dumas fils for the stage and became an instant success. Shortly thereafter, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi set about putting the story to music in the 1853 opera La Traviata. Of all Dumas fils' theatrical works, The Lady of the Camellias is the most popular around the world. In some parts of the English-speaking world, sixteen versions of the play have been performed at Broadway theatres alone.This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian-inspired dust jacket.

Alexandre Dumas

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(1802-1870) fue una figura dominante en la escena literaria del siglo XIX francés. Autor de novelas inolvidables, como El conde de Montecristo, Los tres mosqueteros, Veinte años después, El tulipán negro, La reina Margot o La guerra de las mujeres, su literatura de corte novelesco continúa viva en nuestro tiempo. Sus novelas se reeditan sin cesar y sus historias son adaptadas una y otra vez por la industria cinematográfica.

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