About this title: Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared - anonymously - in 1678 in the heyday of French classicism, it aroused fierce controversy among critics and readers, in particular for the extraordinary confession which forms the climax of the story. Having long been considered a classic, it is now regarded as a landmark in the history of women's writing. In this entirely new translation, The Princesse de Cleves is accompanied ...
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Description: [1846] 1962, revised. (Mass market paperback)...Good.......Ex-library with usual markings....Translated by Nancy Mitford....(Classics) read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-04-15
ISBN-13:9780199539178ISBN:0199539170
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1985
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very good. Slight shelf wear; Paperback; 8vo; Date of Publication: '1985'; City of Publication: 'New York'; Subject: 'Fiction' read more
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