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Madame du Deffand and the Idiots (Penguin Modern)

Javier Marías

3.70/5 (396 ratings)

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'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'

Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Pages:: 64 pages

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Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0241339480

ISBN13:: 9780241339480

kindle Asin:: B0798C53TM

Madame du Deffand and the Idiots (Penguin Modern)

Javier Marías

3.70/5 (396 ratings)

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'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'

Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Format:

Pages:: 64 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0241339480

ISBN13:: 9780241339480

kindle Asin:: B0798C53TM

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