The Princesse de Clèves: The Princesse de Montpensier, the Comtesse de Tende by Terence Cave, Madame de Lafayette

The Princesse de Clèves: The Princesse de Montpensier, the Comtesse de Tende

Terence Cave, Madame de Lafayette

fiction classics challenging informative slow-paced

280 pages | first published 1992

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Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared anonymously in 1678--in the h...
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