Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028

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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1302

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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Caroline Weber
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345803124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style." All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twenty-year-old law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138

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Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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