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Bonjour tristesse

Part of the Penguin Great Loves series
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Cecile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses.

On holiday in the South of France, she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover.

But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy.

United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds.

Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
014103291X / 9780141032917
Paperback / softback
843.914
02/08/2007
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
112 p.
19 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: J. Murray, 1955.