Overview
Written by Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, La Dame aux Camélias is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Marguerite is nicknamed la dame aux camélias (French for 'the lady of the camellias') because she wears a red camellia when she is menstruating and unavailable for making love and a white camelia when she is available to her lovers.
- | Author: Alexandre Dumas
- | Publisher: Independently published
- | Publication Date: January 04, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 130 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1674505426
- | ISBN-13: 9781674505428
