The Lady of the Camellias

Resumen del libro

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 For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

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Biografía del autor

Alexandre Dumas nació en Villers-Cotterêts, al norte de París, en 1802. Fue secretario del duque de Orleans y pasante de un notario. Su pasión por la lectura y la historia lo convirtieron en un prolífico escritor, destacando sus obras x{0026}lt;em Los tres mosqueterosx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em El conde de Montecristox{0026}lt;/em o x{0026}lt;em La reina Margotx{0026}lt;/em . En 1824 nació su hijo Alexandre, autor de x{0026}lt;em La dama de las cameliasx{0026}lt;/em . Republicano, apoyó la revolución de 1848; pero cuando ésta fracasó tuvo que huir a Bélgica. Su voluminosa obra escrita le dio fama y riqueza, si bien murió casi arruinado el 5 de diciembre de 1870.