1806 5th Edtn or Later Reprint Newly Translated THE SHIPWRECK By M. De Saint-Pierre Illus. Good

1806 5th Edition or Later Reprint , Newly Translated
THE SHIPWRECK
or Paul and Virginia
By M. De Saint-Pierre
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Eragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel Paul et Virginie, now largely forgotten, but in the 19th century a very popular children's book

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Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
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Published By: John Orphoot, Blackfrairs Wynd, Edinburgh

sextodecimo or sixteenmo (16mo 4 × 6+3⁄4 102 × 171),Pages 133

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Paul et Virginie (sometimes known in English as Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named ile de France. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre lived on the island for a time and based part of the novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there. The novel served as the basis for a hugely successful opera of the same name, composed by Jean-François Le Sueur, which premiered at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris on 13 January 1794. The novel The Blue Lagoon (1908) was inspired by Paul et Virginie.



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Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg