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The devil in the flesh / Raymond Radiguet ; translated from the French by A.M. Sheridan Smith.
LIBRA Special PQ2635.A25 D513 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Radiguet, Raymond, 1903-1923.
- Standardized Title:
- Diable au corps. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--France--Paris--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Social aspects.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Love stories.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 2005.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "The Devil in the Flesh," one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions-the pride of an adolescent on the verge of manhood and the pain of a child thrust too fast into maturity.
- The liaison soon becomes a scandal, and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening-even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.
- Notes:
- "Translation first published in 1968 in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars."
- ISBN:
- 9780714534022
- 0714534021
- OCLC:
- 58455615
- Online:
- Publisher description
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