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Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
Author: Edmund Rostand
This acclaimed adaptation for the stage by Anthony Burgess has garnered such reviews as: "Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours, yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech." - London Times. Paperback.
ISBN-13: 9781557832306
ISBN-10: 1557832307
Publication Date: 2/1/2000
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Applause Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: 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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