The Real Traviata by Ren Weis - 9780198828297

Name: The Real Traviata by Ren Weis - 9780198828297
Brand: Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

The Real TraviataThe Song of Marie Duplessis\nAuthor(s): Ren Weis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198828297, 978-0198828297\nSynopsis\nThe Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame aux Cam?lias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. \n\nThe woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly short space of time to the apex of fashionable life in nineteenth century Paris, where she was considered the queen of the Parisian courtesans. Her life was painfully short, but by sheer willpower, intelligence, talent, and stunning looks she attained such prominence in the French capital that ministers of the gov.