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Cyrano De Bergerac
Cyrano De Bergerac
Author: Edmund Rostand
Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. The text is accompanied by Notes and a full Introduction which sets the play in its literary and h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394601540
ISBN-10: 0394601548
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
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This translation is definitely looser than Brian Hooker's, but it flows nicely and has an almost contemporary feel to it. The only thing about it that really bothered me was that Burgess' word choice was sometimes kinda pretentious. When _I_ don't know what a word means, that's saying something.



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