Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Louis Enault [translator]; Champfleury [Jules Francois Felix Fleury-Husson]; Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay
Title: Werther by Goethe, Les Oies de Noel by M. Champfleury, & Deux Annes a la Bastille by Mme de Staal
Description: Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1855. Leather. Three novels bound in one book, translated into French. French. Three novels bound in one. This volume contains: The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1855. An epistolary novel following a young man's extreme response to unrequited love. Presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German polymath and writer widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. Translated by Louis Enault, a French journalist, novelist and translator. Les Oies De Noel, 1853. Written by Jules Francois Felix Fleury-Husson, who wrote under the name Champfleury, a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. Deux Annees A La Bastille, 1853. A record of the two years the author spent in the Bastille in 1718 after she was implicated in the Cellamare Conspiracy of Giulio Alberoni against Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent for Louis XV of France. Written by Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay, Baronne de Staal, a French author. In the original half calf with paper covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Contemporary ink inscription or ink stamp to each of the title pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Werther Goethe Enault Goethe None


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