The Lady of the Camellias: Large Print

Written by Alexandre Dumas fils when he was 23 years old, 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: December 21, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 494 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1676248862
• | ISBN-13: 9781676248866