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Alfred De Musset - Seven Plays - 9781840025866 - V9781840025866
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Seven Plays

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Description for Seven Plays Paperback. Alfred de Musset (1810-57) is regarded in France as the most significant dramatist of the first half of the 19th century. The seven plays in this collection including "Marianne", "Fantasio", "Don't Trifle with Love", "The Candlestick", and "A Diversion" share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness. Translator(s): Meyer, Peter. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
"Marianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything The seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness. In Marianne, a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend. In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait. Don't Trifle with Love shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage. In The Candlestick, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840025866
SKU
V9781840025866
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About Alfred De Musset
Best Known as a poet in the English-speaking world, Alfred de Musset (1810-57) is regarded in his native France as perhaps the most significant dramatist of the first half of the nineteenth century. Ibsen admired his work, Turgenev imitated it, while Scribe even thought some of Musset's comedies funnier than his own. ... Read more

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