Princess of Cleves

Name: Princess of Cleves
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ISBN: 9780393963335

ISBN-10: 0393963330

ISBN-13: 9780393963335

Edition: 1994

Authors: Marie Madeleine De Lafayette, John D. Lyons

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Perhaps one of the greatest works of French literature is Madame de Lafayette's The Princess of Cleves, often described as the first of all "modern" novels. This classic translation, with an introduction, by the late English novelist and biographer Nancy Mitford, was first brought out in 1951 by New Directions. It is now made available as a New Directions Paperbook. Published in 1678 and written by Marie Madeleine Roche de la Vergne, Countess de Lafayette - a Parisian lady of fashion and great wit, who probably received help from her friend the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, author of the famous Maxims - it recreates with matchless vitality the lives and loves of the sixteenth-century courtiers…

Book details

List price: $9.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.51" wide x 0.83" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



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The Princess of Cleves


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