The Language of Passion
Subtitle: Selected Commentary
Contributors: Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
Publisher: Picador
Published: June 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312422547
Subjects: Essays; Literary Collections / Essays; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: The story is as decorous and discreet as she herself must have been, and as unreal as the romances she wrote and devoured until the end of her days.