The landmark novel that inspired both Verdi's opera La Traviata and
the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, in a sparkling new
translation. One of the greatest love stories of all time, The Lady
of the Camellias recounts the history of Marguerite Gautier, the
most beautiful, brazen, and expensive courtesan in all of Paris.
Known to all as 'the Lady of the Camellias' because she is never
seen without her favourite flowers, she leads a glittering life of
endless parties and aristocratic balls, with the richest men in
France flocking to her boudoir to lay their fortunes at her feet.
But despite having many lovers, she has never really loved - until
she meets Armand Duval, young, handsome and from a lower social
class, and yet hopelessly in love with Marguerite. ALEXANDRE DUMAS
fils (1824-1895) was the son of the famous novelist Alexandre
Dumas. In 1847 he published his first novel, Adventures of Four
Women and a Parrot, followed a year later by The Lady of the
Camellias and ten other novels over the next decade. After the
great success of the dramatic version of The Lady of the Camellias,
he was gradually drawn away from the novel to the stage. In 1874 he
was elected to the French Academy and until his death continued to
produce a long line of successful plays. LIESL SCHILLINGER is a
journalist and literary critic who writes regularly for The New
York Times Book Review and spent many years on the editorial staff
of The New Yorker. JULIE KAVANAGH is the author of The Girl Who
Loved Camellias, a biography of the courtesan who inspired The Lady
of the Camellias. An award-winning biographer of Rudolf Nureyev and
Frederick Ashton, she has been London editor of both Vanity Fair
and The New Yorker. 'One of the greatest love stories of the world'
Henry James 'Anyone who has read an outdated English translation of
this novel; seen the opera it inspired - La Traviata, by Verdi; or
watched the film it inspired - Camille, starring Greta Garbo, might
have missed the audacity, obstinacy, sensuality, and recklessness
of its characters' Liesl Schillinger
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