In the Land of Pain
by Alphonse Daudet; Julian Barnes (Editor and Translator)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0224062670
- ISBN 13
- 9780224062671
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 19.1 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm. Dust jacket fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Overall, very sound and presentable. Publisher's note: ""Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was one of the most popular nineteenth-century French novelists, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. What few except those close to him knew was that for his enitre adult life he suffered from syphilis, a disease both unmentionable and incurable at the time. What even fewer knew was that for the last dozen years of his life he kept an intimate notebook in which he recorded the inevitable development and terrifying effects of the disease. He described the often alarming treatments he took in the desperate attempt to defeat the disease, and wrote with comic zest about life in the spa-towns to which he was sent for a cure. Even for a time when we are more openly confessional about illness, Daudet remains exemplary and instructive, both in his lucid self-examination and in his amused stoicism. In the Land of Pain was first published by Daudet's widow in 1930"--Jacket." Size: 19.1 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm. xv, 87 pp.. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Fiction; Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897; Syphilis--Patients; France; Authors, French; Health; Pain in literature; Syphilis in literature; Pain; ISBN: 0224062670. ISBN/EAN: 9780224062671. Add. Inventory No: 230123ABJ002013. . 9780224062671
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- Bookseller
- Barnaby (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230123ABJ002013
- Title
- In the Land of Pain
- Author
- Alphonse Daudet; Julian Barnes (Editor and Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0224062670
- ISBN 13
- 9780224062671
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 19.1 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm
- Keywords
- BZDB428 Fiction; Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897; Syphilis--Patients; France; Authors, French; Health; Pain in literature; Syphilis in literature; Pain; ISBN: 0224062670 EAN: 9780224062671 Alphonse Daudet; Julian Barnes (Editor and Translator) In the Land o
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