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The timeless classic about the battle between passion and class.
Men of great wealth bought her love. She gave it to only one.
Marguerite Gautier, the greatest beauty in Paris, was known to all as ''the Lady of the Camellias'' because she was never seen without her favorite flowers. She was luxuriously kept by the richest men in France, who thronged to her boudoir to lay their fortunes at her feet. She lived violently, spending herself and her money in reckless abandon. She had many lovers, but she never really loved--until she met Armand Duval.
Realizing that her only assets in life were her face and figure, Marguerite had learned how to make men pay. But what happens to a cool, calculating beauty when she herself suffers the wound of love?
The timeless classic about the battle between passion and class.
Men of great wealth bought her love. She gave it to only one.
Marguerite Gautier, the greatest beauty in Paris, was known to all as ''the Lady of the Camellias'' because she was never seen without her favorite flowers. She was luxuriously kept by the richest men in France, who thronged to her boudoir to lay their fortunes at her feet. She lived violently, spending herself and her money in reckless abandon. She had many lovers, but she never really loved--until she met Armand Duval.
Realizing that her only assets in life were her face and figure, Marguerite had learned how to make men pay. But what happens to a cool, calculating beauty when she herself suffers the wound of love?
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS (1824-1895), was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his father's footsteps becoming a celebrated author and playwright. In 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his 1858 play, Le fils Naturel (The Illegitimate Son), he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child, then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman. In 1844 Dumas, fils, moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye. There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel, Camille (La Dame aux Camillas).
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1455127388
- ISBN 13 9781455127382
- BindingAudio CD
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