Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

Author: Dumas fils, Alexandre

Brand: Signet

Color: Tan

Edition: Reprint

Binding: mass_market

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 06-01-2004

Part Number: 9780451529206

Details: Product Description
Marguerite Gautier is the most beautiful, brazen—and expensive—courtesan in all of Paris. Despite being ill with consumption, she lives a glittering, moneyed life of nonstop parties and aristocratic balls and savors every day as if it were her last.

Into her life comes Armand Duval. Young, handsome, and recklessly headstrong, he is hopelessly in love with Marguerite, but not nearly rich enough. Yet Armand is Marguerite’s first true love, and against her better judgment, she throws away her upper-class lifestyle for him. But as intense as their love for each other is, it challenges a reality that cannot be denied.…

This Signet Classics version is the only available paperback edition of
Camille, a story as old as time and as timeless as love itself.

Translated by Sir Edmond Gosse, with an Introduction by Toril Moi


Includes Photos
Review
“One of the greatest love stories in the world.”—Henry James
About the Author
Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–95) was the illegitimate son of a Belgian seamstress and the famed novelist Alexandre Dumas. He was educated in several Parisian private schools and the Collège Bourbon. The elder Dumas acknowledged him as his natural son and for some time made him his constant companion. In 1847, the younger Dumas published his first novel,
Adventures of Four Women and a Parrot, followed a year later by
Camille (The Lady of the Camellias), and ten other novels over the next decade. Following the great success of the dramatic version of
Camille, Dumas was gradually drawn away from the novel to the stage. He was elected to the French Academy in 1874 and continued to produce a long line of successful plays until his death.


Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Widely known for her work on feminist theory, she is the author of
Sexual/Textual Politics;
What Is a Woman?; and
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. The editor of
The Kristeva Reader and
French Feminist Thought, she recently published a book on Henrik Ibsen.

EAN: 9780451529206

Package Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English