Beaumont Barbara Editor (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. Tall soft cover as shown. First soft cover edition, 1987. 197 pages, index and extensive notes. A like new copy, tight, clean and unmarked. Shelf B, editor.

1987 paperback. Book unread and as new.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. ISBN 0880640685. (french russian literature letters correspondence friendship).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Amer. Ed. So State, Complete # Str. 197pp. Photos sent on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1985. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393022064. 197 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe France Literature Russia Translated Letters Biography World Literature. DESCRIPTION - For the first time, the complete correspondence exchange between Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev from their meeting in 1863 to Flaubert's sudden death in 1880 has been collected into a single edition and translated into English. These two giants of the nineteenth-century novel became intimate friends during the last twenty years of their lives. Their letters constitute a lively, vigorous communication of views on their own literary works and on the nature and importance of art, as well as on a range of contemporary issues, such as the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris theatrical scene, Naturalism, and their mutual friends: Guy de Maupassant, Emile Zola, Georges Sand, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Goncourt brothers. The correspondence also deals with matters of health: Flaubert was suffering terrible setbacks in his fortune and was prone to melancholy; Turgenev was dogged horribly by gout. One can only conclude that each was a truly sustaining force for the other and spurred one another on to overcome grief, illness, and literary limbo. What emerges is a loving friendship, rich and satisfying, of two childish, vain, and quickly aging geniuses. inventory #141. …

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Athlone Press, London, 1989. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new. Pristine.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.