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Paul and Virginia

Paul and Virginia

de Saint-Pierre, Bernardin

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1589639529
ISBN13: 9781589639522
Publisher: Intl Law & Taxation Publ
Published: Aug 25 2002
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The author uses fiction to convey the theme that happiness consists of living according to the dictates of nature and virtue. The novel takes place in the Mauritius and is a classic French romantic novel. Like Rousseau, his friend and mentor, Bernardin de St. Pierre was a great literary apostle of the return to nature. In Paul et Virginie, first published in 1788 in the fourth volume of his Études de la Nature, Bernardin drew on his three-years' residence as a government official in Mauritius for his first-hand description of the exotic scenery of that island paradise. The novel, detached from the ponderous Études, became a European best-seller for half a century. The book was a great favorite with English readers, and helped to establish a vogue for the exotic in fiction.

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