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Camille (La Dame aux Camilias): read and explore
This semi-autobiographical story follows the tragic romance between Marguerite Gautier,…
About this reading
- Author
- Alexandre Dumas
- Form
- novel
- Catalog year
- 1848
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In my opinion, it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time in studying men, as it is impossible to speak a language until it has been seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent, I content myself with narrating, and I beg the reader to assure himself of the truth of a story in which all the characters, with the exception of the heroine, are still alive. Eye-witnesses of the greater part of the facts …
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