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La Dame aux Camelias (Oxford World's Classics)
 

La Dame aux Camelias

by Alexandre Dumas

One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love affair with one of the most desirable courtesans in Paris. This is a completely new translation commissioned for the World's Classics. (read review)

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Sylvia
  • Rated 4 stars

“Admittedly, I was expecting a romantic love story, having applied all stereotypical assumptions, but despite it not moving me like a dramatic romance tale, this book has its charm in the display of a sort of power struggle within a relationship, and to me that is worth thinking about more than whether or not it really was a romantic affair.”

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Elaine V
  • Rated 2 stars

“Very very French. Very. Tragic, dark, frivolous, creepy, over dramatic...a good quick read.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.76699 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.35 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Depar

    depar said:

    “hello..friends.. yeah it's a real tragedy. curiously, i want to know..that.. who is actually written this.. Dumas or the younger Dumas (I mean son of Dumas.) Let me know the truth!”

    posted Tuesday, October 21 2008
  • Luna

    luna said:

    “I started it today and read the first half of it.”

    posted Wednesday, April 9 2008
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “i dont know, i love his other books and usually like this kind of story, but it seemed so over wrought, i could not help but comparely it unfavorably to madame bovary”

    posted Monday, March 24 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • ralulu r

    ralulu r said:

    “it was one of the very romantic books i've read, and i even cried! i just love this dramatic destiny of Marguerite!”

    posted Monday, December 31 2007
  • Tatiana S

    tatiana s said:

    “i love this love story...i cryied all the time....”

    posted Thursday, December 6 2007
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