The Real Traviata

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The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame aux Camélias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly short space of time to the apex of fashion…

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Full title :The Real Traviata

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The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame aux Camélias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly short space of time to the apex of fashionable life in nineteenth century Paris, where she was considered the queen of the Parisian courtesans.

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Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

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Description based upon print version of record

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Description:1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198708544, 0198708548, 9780191018152 (Sekundärausgabe), 0191018155 (Sekundärausgabe)
oclc:ocn919911656
LC Classification:MT956 .W384 2015
Dewey Decimal:782.1

Subjects

Courts and courtiers Dumas, Alexandre DUPLESSIS, MARIE France France -- Court and courtiers -- 19th c… France -- Paris History Manners and customs Paris (France) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- … Paris (France) -- Social life and custo… Traviata (Verdi, Giuseppe) Verdi, Giuseppe