La Dame aux Camélias [Camille] - Alexandre Dumas fils

Written by Alexandre Dumas fils
Read by Nicholas Boulton
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
· Release date: 06-25-20
· Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Marguerite Gautier is the most beautiful, brazen—and expensive—courtesan in all of Paris. Despite being ill with consumption, she lives a glittering, moneyed life of nonstop parties and aristocratic balls and savors every day as if it were her last.

Into her life comes Armand Duval. Young, handsome, and recklessly headstrong, he is hopelessly in love with Marguerite, but not nearly rich enough. Yet Armand is Marguerite’s first true love, and against her better judgment, she throws away her upper-class lifestyle for him. But as intense as their love for each other is, it challenges a reality that cannot be denied….

Dumas’ novel became one of the great love stories from its first publication in 1848. The title role of the consumptive heroine and her ultimate sacrifice inspired actresses from Sarah Bernhardt to Greta Garbo and led Giuseppe Verdi to write La traviata. In the hands of Nicholas Boulton, the story of passion and conflict is as fresh and moving as when it was first written.

Dumas fils, an illegitimate son, was taken from his mother when very young. His books all have a tragic heroine.

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