Autograph manuscript: A Teenage Eunuch Named Sporus Becomes Empress Of Rome Under Nero’s Rule
by DUMAS, Alexandre
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Pine Plains, New York, United States
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About This Item
Unpublished Manuscript by Alexandre Dumas pere, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, often called the greatest French Romantic novelist.. "He had great gifts of narrative and dialogue, a powerful imagination… [and] a genius for seizing the situations and characters that would best render historical atmosphere. He wrote with unflagging gusto and an instinctive conviction… that 'l'action et l'amour' were the essential things in life, hence in fiction" (Reid, 196). Dumas' reputation as France's premier adventure writer and a forefather of popular fiction is evidenced in this manuscript which makes spectacle of Nero's "taste for debauchery" and briefly recounts the story of Sporus, the teenage boy whom Nero gelded, dressed up as a female, and later married. Fascinating full-page fragment of Dumas' take on the "infamous gossips and adulterers" of Ancient Rome. A few chips and repairs. Book #Cv1111. $4500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.
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- Pen Ultimate Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Cv1111
- Title
- Autograph manuscript: A Teenage Eunuch Named Sporus Becomes Empress Of Rome Under Nero’s Rule
- Author
- DUMAS, Alexandre
- Format/Binding
- Paper
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Pages
- 1
- Size
- 11" x 8.6"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- belles-lettres;
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