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Maria Isabel, Duchess of Caparroso, falls in love with Cervantes and then believes herself to have been recognizably misrepresented in fiction. Her diary records her journey to despair and isolation, followed by a quest for the truth and her progress back into the world with renewed hope.
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"A moving and imaginative peeling away of those dark and tragic layers which underline the shiny gloss of fiction in the course of which, almost casually but with amazing grace, Robin Chapman recreates the whole world of Cervantes's Spain."
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The Duchess's Diary
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Faber and Faber, London, 1985
ISBN 10: 0571134416
ISBN 13: 9780571134410
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Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition thus (revised), in unclipped jacket. Page block and page edges are slightly tanned; text is clear throughout. TS. Used. Seller Inventory # 605300