Legend of Lovers
New York: Coward-McCann, (1952).
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Kitty Black. Owner's neat gift inscription in Spanish on half-title, spine ends lightly worn, a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with sticker over price on front flap, spine a touch faded with ends chipped. A modern retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice legend.
Item #396228
Jean Anouilh
birth name: Jean-Marie-Lucien-Pierre Anouilh
born: 6/23/1910
died: 10/3/1987
Biography
Playwright who became one of the strongest personalities of the French theater and achieved an international reputation as a skillful exponent of the well-crafted play. Anouilh's characteristic techniques include the play within the play, flashbacks and flash-forwards, and the exchange of roles. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore