Cyrano de Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac - Paperback

Cyrano de Bergerac - Paperback

by Edmond Rostand
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by Edmond Rostand (Author), Carol Clark (Translator), Carol Clark (Editor)

The inspiration for the musical film adaptation starring Peter Dinklage and directed by Joe Wright

Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size and believes she will never see past it to return his feelings. So when he discovers that the handsome but tongue-tied Christian is also pining for Roxane, generous Cyrano offers to help by writing exquisite declarations of love for the young man to woo her with. Will she ever recognize who she is really falling in love with? Set during the reign of Louis XIII, Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) was one of the great theatrical successes of its time and remains as popular today for its dramatic power and, above all, for its complicated and romantic story of unrequited love.

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Author Biography

Savien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) French soldier, satirist, and dramatist, whose life has been the basis of many romantic but unhistorical legends. The best-known of them is Edmond Rostand's verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac (1897). Bergerac's major works were two posthumously published accounts of fantastic voyages, VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1657) and L'HISTOIRE DES ÉTATS ET EMPIRES DU SOLEIL (1662). Carol Clark is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. She taught French there for many years, lecturing particularly on seventeenth and nineteenth-century topics. She has previously translated Baudelaire and Proust for Penguin.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.56 x 7.74 x 5.08 IN
Publication Date: December 01, 2006
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Cyrano de Bergerac
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 7.6
Point Value: 7
ISBN9780140449686
Author Edmond Rostand
PublisherPenguin Classics
GenreDrama
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) was born in Marseilles, France, in 1868, the son of a distinguished and cultured family. The young Rostand was educated first in Marseilles, then in Paris, where he earned a degree in law. It was a profession, however, that he was never to practice. He made his literary debut in 1890 with a volume of lyric verse, and his first important play, The Romancers, was produced by the Comédie Francaise in 1894. In 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac won critical acclaim and spectacular popular success, and Rostand further solidified his position as the foremost of modern French romantic dramatists with L'Aiglon in 1900 and Chantecler in 1910.

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