num_pages: 216
description: 1902. A Frontispiece and numerous other portraits with descriptive notes by Octave Uzanne. Written by the son of Alexandre Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a good woman at heart.
language: English
title: La Dame Aux Camelias
titlecomplete: La Dame Aux Camelias (French Texts)
characters: Marguerite Gautier, Prudence Duvernoy, Monsieur Duval, Armand Duval
genres: Historical Fiction, French Literature, Novels, Drama, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 48821
places: Paris, France
publisher: Duckworth Publishers