Lucien Leuwen, Book Two: The Telegraph: Lucien Leuwen Book 2 - Hardcover

Stendhal; Stendahl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811203883 ISBN 13: 9780811203883

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 1950

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The Telegraph takes up from where The Green Huntsman left off with the career of Lucien Leuwen, the fashionable young cavalry officer with "republican" leanings but aristocratic tastes. When his father, an influential banker, places him in a government office, Lucien is quickly involved in a series of intrigues. He is required to assist in the suppression of a murder, fix a provincial election, and to advance the interest of his father's cabal, carry on a cold-blooded love affair with the most beautiful hostess in Paris. Through Lucien's eyes, Stendhal uncovers the moral decay of a society in which a failing government keeps itself in power by force and trickery.

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Louise Varèse was an American biographer and translator of French. She is known for her translations of Stendhal, Proust, Georges Simenon, Julien Gracq, St.-John Perse and Arthur Rimbaud.

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Political Intrigue is always a fascinating subject for fiction. In the hands of a great master like Stendhal it can become utterly absorbing. And so it is in this novel, where we follow the adventures of young Lucien Leuwen, private secretary to the Minister of the Interior in the corrupt French government of Louis-Philippe.

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1950
• ISBN 10: 0811203883
• ISBN 13: 9780811203883
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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