Nélida /
A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English. A volume in the SUNY series, Women Writers in Translation Marilyn Gaddis Rose, editor
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press
c2003
New York : State University of New York Press, c2003 New York : [2003] |
| Series: | SUNY series, women writers in translation
SUNY series, women writers in translation |
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| Summary: | A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English. A volume in the SUNY series, Women Writers in Translation Marilyn Gaddis Rose, editor "First published in 1846 under the pen name Daniel Stern, Nelida tells the story of a beautiful French heiress who surrenders everything - marriage, reputation, and an aristocratic way of life - for the love of a talented young middle class painter. Based on this author's own ten-year relationship with the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, the novel quickly became the scandalous bestseller of its day In Nelida, her only major novel, she brings to life the deeply intimate parts of her own story and the era in which it took place. Written with a keen sensitivity to social mores and psychological nuances, the novel reveals the primal cry of a woman determined to control her own destiny without betraying her womanhood."--Jacket Its author, Marie d'Agoult, has emerged as one of the most remarkable women of her time. An aristocratic Parisian woman who left her husband and child to become the companion of Liszt, d'Agoult became an accomplished woman of letters whose works included a major history of the 1848 revolution in Paris |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "Originally published in 1846 under the pen name Daniel Stern." |
| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 213 p. : ill. ; 23 cm xxxiv, 213 p. ; 23 cm xxxiv, 213 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213) Includes bibliographical references (page 213) Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 079145911X (hbk.) 079145911X 0791459128 (pbk.) 0791459128 9780791459119 9780791459126 (pbk.) |