 |
|
 |
|
Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans
(Paperback, 2004)
Other Editions...
Author: Virginia Rounding
The lives of four of the saucier women in 19th-century France: Marie Duplessis, Cora pearl, La Païva...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
LIST PRICE
$16.95
Save 46%
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1582344507
ISBN-13: 9781582344508
Sep 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
337 pages
Reprint
Edition: 1
Language: English |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In general items shipped via Media Mail should arrive in 2-9 days (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) from the time of shipping
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
Details
Synopsis
The lives of four of the saucier women in 19th-century France: Marie Duplessis, Cora pearl, La Païva, and La Présidente--all of whom accumulated wealth and reached high levels in society by selling their favors to politicians, generals, men about town, and the writers Feydeau and Flaubert.
| Size | | Length: | 337 pages | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"a scholarly but generally readable tour....Well-researched, intelligent, and compassionate, but suffers unnecessarily from the absence of illustrations...."
Kirkus Reviews (05/02/2003)
"Rounding presents a seductive vision...."
New Yorker (08/11/2003)
|
|
|
Other Editions
|
|
|
Similar Items on eBay
|
|
)
)
)
)
)
)
All rights reserved.
