The Lady of the Camellias

Alexandre Dumas

The Lady of the Camellias
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 August 2013
Pages
304
ISBN
9780143107026

The Lady of the Camellias

Alexandre Dumas

The Lady of the Camellias itself was inspired by the real-life nineteeth-century courtesan Marie Duplessis, the lover of the novel’s author, Alexander Dumas fils.

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation

One of the greatest love stories of all time, according to Henry James,and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Rudolph Valentino, Isabelle Huppert, and Colin Firth), The Lady of the Camellias itself was inspired by the real-life nineteeth-century courtesan Marie Duplessis, the lover of the novel’s author, Alexander Dumas fils.

Known to all as the Lady of the Camellias because she is never seen without her favorite flowers, Marguerite Gautier, the most beautiful, brazen, and expensive courtesan in all of Paris. But despite having many lovers, she has never really loved-until she meets Armand Duval, young, handsome, and hopelessly in love with her.

Marguerite and Armand are the kind of bright, self-destructive young things we still read about in magazines, watch on-screen, or brush up against today.

-Liesl Schillinger, from the Note on the Translation

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