Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
$10.18
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2018
Summary
Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.
‘She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.’
Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain’s greatest living writer.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241339480 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241339480 |
| Author: | Javier Marías |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 46g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 112mm x 5mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern |
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About The Author
Javier Marías
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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