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Cyrano de Bergerac

Full title: Joy of the Worm Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature
ISBN: 9780369100177
ISBN 10: 0369100174
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition: 1
Num. pages: 200
Binding: ePub
Language: English
Published on: 20190724

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Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of The Last Wife and The Virgin Trial comes a new adaptation of one of the finest love stories ever told. Cyrano de Bergerac is a swashbuckling seventeenth-century swordsman who can do anything . . . except tell Roxane, the woman he loves, how he feels. He’s just too self-conscious about his unusually large nose. Roxane finds romance in words, and Cyrano is full of them, so when he sees the chance to ghostwrite love letters to her from an inarticulate, love-struck cadet, he takes it—but can he ever reveal himself? Could she ever love him for who he is? In turns funny, tender, and self-aware, this classic tale about the exquisite distress of loving from afar will find its way into the hearts of even the most skeptical.