Paul Et Virginie by Bernardin De Saint-Pierre 1855 in FRENCH Leather 1/4 bound with marbled boards Paul et Virginie (sometimes known in English as Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin's finest work.[citation needed] It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre lived on the island for a time and based part of the novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there Approx: 11.5cm x 17.5cm x 1.5cm Condition Vintage GOOD - Photo's of Actual Product - See photos to confirm condition Wear and losses to leather binding, staining to inside pages, foxing, tanned. Binding tight ------------------- Postage & packing Free UK economy Postage Expedited UK Postage £5 International Postage: Ebay global shipping program (No combined postage) Please See my eBay shop for more vintage pieces & add as a favourite seller, new stock added regularly. Thanks for looking |