Three Plays by Brieux Member of the French Academy
by Brieux, Eugene
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Brentano's 1911. (Hardcover) 333pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with paper title pasted to the spine. Photographic frontispiece. A previous owner's name and blind stamp on the front free endpaper. "After the death of Ibsen, Brieux confronted Europe as the most important dramatist west of Russia. In that kind of comedy which is so true to life that we have to call it tragi-comed, and which is not only an entertainment but a history and a criticism of contemporary morals, he is incomparably the greatest writer France has produced since Moliere" - from the Preface by Bernard Shaw. Preface by Bernard Shaw. Translated by St. John Hankin, John Pollock & Mrs. Bernard Shaw. (Drama, Plays, Theater).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154716
- Title
- Three Plays by Brieux Member of the French Academy
- Author
- Brieux, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brentano's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Drama, Plays, Theater
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama and Theater;
Terms of Sale
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
Biblio member since 2003
Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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