The Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal

ISBN 10: 0679602453 / ISBN 13: 9780679602453

Editore: Modern Library, New York, 1999

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Protected jacket and covers in near fine shape, price intact, binding straight, pages marked in pen by American novelist William Heath. A new translation by Richard Howard. first edition, first printing. Codice articolo 007637

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Titolo: The Charterhouse of Parma

Casa editrice: Modern Library, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Hardcover

Illustratore: Andrew Parker

Condizione: Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

Edizione: First Edition

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Riassunto:

A new translation of Stendhal's masterful tragic novel follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before Waterloo and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma.

Recensione:

"The Charterhouse of Parma has never sparkled in English with such radiance as it does in Richard Howard's new translation."
--Edmund White

"[A] superb new translation."
--Bernard Knox, The New York Review of Books

"An epic tale of war, love, sex, politics, and religion...an action-packed narrative."
--The New Yorker
From the Trade Paperback edition.