by Alexandre Dumas-fils
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 Duval. Young, handsome,...
bookshelves: radio-4x, dec-2015-free-for-all, winter-20152016, published-1844, lit-richer, france, classic, translation, play-dramatisation, overwrought, obsession, sentimental-hogwash Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 30 to December 11, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
I enjoyed the story and the writing. It was definitely a sad one. To experience so much love, passion and jealousy that it would drive you to do and say the most horrendous things. I felt bad for the characters, all of them. I wanted a happy ending but unfortunately I didn't get one. I will definite...
[These notes were made in 1981. I read this in a 20th-century English translation; not sure which one:]. A quick jaunt through one of the hoariest legends of our times. English translation distorts, of course, but after having seen and loved the vastly melodramatic opera version, it seems a trifle ...
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