Believe It or Not - Couverture souple

Scribe, Eugène

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184002495X ISBN 13 : 9781840024951

Editeur : Oberon Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

In Scribe's Le Puff (1848) - translated here as Believe It or Not - an honourable cavalry officer returns to Paris after five years abroad to find his countrymen happily addicted to exaggeration, dissimulation and downright lying. Can he find happiness and keep his integrity in a world where nothing is what it seems?

The enduring qualities of Scribe's work - the complex yet elegant plotting, the quirky characters, the sharply-written dialogue - are all very much in evidence, as with bouyant cynicism he skewers the worlds of letters, finance and politics.



Features a foreword from critic Nicholas Dromgoole.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

"Born in Manchester in 1959, Ranjit Bolt was educated at Perse School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an investment analyst and advisor for eight years, before concentrating on theatre translation from the end of 1990. Ranjit Bolt's acclaimed translations for the theatre, many of which are published by Oberon Books, include works by Moliere, Seneca, Sophocles, Corneille, Beaumarchais, Brecht, Goldoni and Zorilla."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oberon Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184002495X
• ISBN 13: 9781840024951
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible