Research Catalog

Title

• Beaumarchais : a biography / Maurice Lever, translated from the French by Susan Emanuel.

Author

Lever, Maurice

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Emanuel, Susan

Description

xiv, 411 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The life story of the playwright, politician, publisher, entrepreneur, spy, and rebel who authored The marriage of Figaro.

Uniform Title

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. English

Alternative Title

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
• Dramatists, French > 18th century > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "Originally published in three volumes as Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais," c1999, 2003, and 2004, --T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-391) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A Young Man in a Hurry -- 2. The Road to Fortune -- 3. "En Capa y Sombrero" -- 4. "Monsieur, the Fallen Author" -- 5. The La Blache Affair -- 6. The Mad Day -- 7. The Prisoner of For-l'Eveque -- 8. Vengeance Does Not Erase a Reprimand -- 9. The Adventures of the Chevalier de Ronac -- 10. "I Would Prefer to Be a Good Barber" -- 11. The Cause of America -- 12. "The Americans Must Be Helped" -- 13. "The Desire of All Nations" -- 14. "A Noble and Free People!" -- 15. "The Most Patient of America's Creditors" -- 16. The Revolution of Dramatic Authors -- 17." What Kind of Man Have I Become?" -- 18. "And Voltaire Will Never Die" -- 19. "The Craziest Reverie in My Nightcap" -- 20. The Legendary Spanking -- 21. The (Third) Marriage of Figaro -- 22. The Adulterous Woman -- 23. "A Lyric Monster" -- 24. The Folly at the Foot of the Volcano -- 25." Burial of Figaro" -- 26. "The Nine Most Painful Months of My Life" -- 27. The Last Mistress -- 28. Wanderings -- 29. The Prisoner of Altona.

ISBN

• 9780374113285 (alk. paper)
• 0374113289 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008055449

OCLC

243544896

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library