Eugene Sue

Broschiertes Buch

The Mysteries of Paris

Beschreibung

In the Cite, a seedy neighborhood where criminals gather, Rodolphe encounters a young prostitute of breathtaking purity who goes by the name Songbird. He saves her from an attack by a ruffian called the Slasher, setting off the dominoes of an epic narrative traversing the ranks of French society.

Autor

Eugène Sue (1804–1857) was a French novelist. In addition to The Mysteries of Paris, his works include The Wandering Jew, an anticlerical melodrama, and The Mysteries of the People, a fictionalized history of the working classes throughout French history. In 1850, Sue won election to the National Assembly as a Socialist delegate. Carolyn Betensky is an associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. Jonathan Loesberg is a professor of literature at American University. Peter Brooks is a professor emeritus at Yale and currently teaches at Princeton. His essays and reviews have appeared in in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 1344
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 136mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1080g
• ISBN-13: 9780143107125
• ISBN-10: 0143107127
• Artikelnr.: 42517979