Author Name: Beyle, Marie-Henri (De Stendhal) ; Moncriefe, C. K. Scott (Trans)
Title: The Abbess of Castro, and Other Tales
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Publisher: NY Boni & Liveright 1927
ISBN Number: B00085BHFO
Seller ID: 16119
269 pages; Very Good/Very Good. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Name written very tiny and neat to inside front board, in pencil. Tiny bit of shelf rub to spine tips. Outside page edges are lightly age tanned. Solid hinges, tight binding. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is age tanned to spine. Closed tear to top corner tip. Now in protective sleeve. In this volume of stories we fine Stedhal at his most interesting point. He is writing stories with Italian themes; the Italy which he knew so well. He spent much time in Italy living in Milan for six years. In these five tales you will find literature at its best; study observation and imagination. Stendhal was the superman of his day, one who bothered little with moral obligations, and his Italian stories he interprets in his own peculiar mood and style.
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