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DescriptionThe landmark novel that inspired Verdi's opera "La Traviata," in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi's opera "La Traviata," the Oscar-winning musical "Moulin Rouge!," and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Rudolph Valentino, Isabelle Huppert, and Colin Firth), "The Lady of the Camellias" itself was inspired by the real-life nineteeth-century courtesan Marie Duplessis, the lover of the novel's author, Alexander Dumas "fils." Author descriptionAlexandre Dumas "fils" (1824-1895) was the son of the famous novelist Alexandre Dumas. He published many novels, and after the success of the dramatic version of "The Lady of the Camellias, "he became equally prolific as a playwright. Liesl Schillinger is a journalist and literary critic who writes regularly for the" New York Times Book Review" and spent many years on the editorial staff of the" New Yorker." She lives in New York. Julie Kavanagh is an award-winning biographer whose latest book is about the courtesan Marie Duplessis, who inspired "The Lady of the Camellias." She has been London editor of both "Vanity Fair "and the "New Yorker." She lives in London. |