The princesse de Clèves ; The princesse de Montpensier ; The comtesse de Tende /
Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning-point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared--anonymously--in 1678 in the heyday of French classicism, it aroused fierce c...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1999
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| Series: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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