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Alexis

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Ex library but with only fairly discreet stamps &c. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£8.95), previous owner's name to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age and ex library. 108pp. It was with 'Alexis' that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love. Marguerite de Crayencour (1903-88), who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name 'Marguerite Yourcenar', was a Belgian born French novelist and essayist, the first woman to be elected to the Academie Française. In 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick, where she lectured in comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. When her bestseller 'Memoires d'Hadrien' was first published in 1951, it was an immediate success and quickly translated into English by the lovers. Nº de ref. del artículo: 010975

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