Graziella by Alphonse de Lamartine - 2018

University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 11/13/2018 12:00:01. paperback. New. 0.7087 in x 7.9528 in x 4.9606 in. Brand new. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

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Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2018. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 168 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman's erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in a cigar factory-and whose death after he returned to France would haunt him throughout his writing life. Graziella, Lamartine called this lost girl in his poetry and memoirs-and also in Graziella, a novel that closely follows the story of his own romance. "When I was eighteen," the narrator begins, as if penning his memoir, "my family entrusted me to the care of a relative whose business affairs called her to Tuscany." The tale that unfolds, of the young man's amorous experiences amid the natural grandeur and subtle splendors of the Italian countryside, is one of the finest works of fiction in the French Romantic… Read More