num_pages: 128
description: It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love.
language: English
title: Alexis
titlecomplete: Alexis
genres: Fiction, France, Queer, LGBT, French Literature, Drama, Literature, Adult, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1782
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux