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Alexandre Dumas gained critical and public admiration with the publication of The Lady of the Camellias which became one of the most popular novels of all time. Based on the author's experiences, the book tells the relationship between the young Armand Duval and the courtesan... Read Full Overview

One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love affair with one of the most desirable courtesans in Paris. This is a completely new translation commissioned... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

A mi juicio, no se pueden crear personajes sino despu?s de haber estudiado mucho a los hombres, como no se puede hablar una lengua sino a condici?n de haberla aprendido seriamente.Como no he llegado a?n a la edad de inventar, me limito a relatar.Exhorto, pues, al lector a que... Read Full Overview

La Dame aux Camelias a toujours le pouvoir de jeter le charme qui a fascin? des g?n?rations de lecteurs. L'h?ro?ne merveilleusement belle, intelligente et vibrante de Dumas vit dans les couvertures de la version sc?nique, dans les adaptations cin?matographiques et t?l?visuelles,... Read Full Overview

Margarita vive para el amor y muere por el amor. Su joven amante, arrebatado por su belleza, est? pronto a deso?r las voces que quieren imponerse a su coraz?n. Toda la vida de la Francia fastuosa del Segundo Imperio se arrastra por los salones de este Par?s, que como monstruo... Read Full Overview

This Signet Classic is the only available paperback edition of the famous story of passion versus class that remains as timeless as love itself. Features a new Introduction and a 16-page photo insert. Reissue.

Esta obra est inspirada en un hecho real de la vida de Alejandro relativo a un romance con Marie Duplessis joven cortesana de Par s que mantuvo distintas relaciones con grandes personajes de la vida social. La novela pertenece al movimiento literario que se conocer a como Realismo,... Read Full Overview

The Lady of the Camellias By Alexandre Dumas, first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Th?'tre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The theme of Camille is a love story between Marguerite Gautier, a "demi-mondaine" ("courtesane" in the original French, i.e., a woman "kept" by various lovers, frequently more than one at a time) suffering from tuberculosis ("phthisie" in the novel), and a young provincial bourgeois,... Read Full Overview

The Lady of the Camellias is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine... Read Full Overview