Author: de Musset, d'Alfred
Title: Oeuvres Completes D'Alfred de Musset / Complete Set in Nine Volumes
Description: Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles. Hardcover. 8vo. Each volume is uniformly bound in half calf over marbled boards, with contrasting marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and with ribbon markers. This was set originally issued in card covers, which have been bound-in. A bookplate has been neatly removed from each volume. Several corners are bumped, and some board edges are a trifle rubbed. The contents are clean and tight throughout. A most attractive set in very good condition. Our set contains all of Musset's works. The text is in French. Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (1810-1857) was a French dramatist, poet and novelist. He was born in Paris and entered the College Henri-IV at the age of nine where, in 1827, he won the Latin essay prize in the Councours general. With the help of Victor Hugo's brother-in-law, he attended the Cenacle - the literary salon of Charles Nodier at the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal. His first collection of poems, Comtes d'Espagne et d'Italie, was published in 1829. Perhaps because of his upbringing, or perhaps due to his own innate predelictions, Musset pursued in Paris what we might now call 'a fast life'. His account of his celebrated love affair with the cross-dressing George Sand is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel La Confession d'un Enfant du Siecle. Musset is also believed to be the author of Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (1833), a lesbian erotic novel, also believed to be modeled on George Sand. Musset was awarded the Legion d'honneur in 1845 (at the same time as Balzac), and was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1852. .

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