Lucien Leuwen Book Telegraph by Stendhal (30 results)

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Later Edition. ISBN Trade Paperback. Second printing thus. Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy except for price blacked out on back cover, with some rubs to edges and faces of covers, slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of covers and interior pages, minor edgewear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good Condition. Translated by Louise Varese. Illustrated card binding is rubbed and has ont crease at top outside corner of back cover.415pp. Content clean and sound. This Trade paper back edition is large and will require additional postage. Photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition Thus. 1951 Andre Deutsch first thus hardback; Good sound clean copy, aged to page edges; no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Corner clipped. In protective mylar cover. (Literature, Fiction, Humor, Satire).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. HALF LEATHER WITH PATTERNED BOARDS , GILT DECORATION AND RAISED BANDS ON SPINE, MARBLED EPS. LEATHER WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, PAGES TANNED, SOME PENCIL MARKS IN MARGINS, TOP OF LEAF 257-8 IS TORN, OTHERWISE GOOD. 600 GRAMS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to cover and spine, mainly edges and corners, Edges faded and surface worn, Corners bumped and a little worn, Top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, spine faded and text worn, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and majority clear, a few small marks on edges and a few small nicks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in Near Fine jacket.1st U.K. Edition.

1st edition, hardback, 327pp, pages browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Good condition in browned and slightly frayed dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Binding tight. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: Fine. London 1951 first edition thus. Lehman. Hardcover octavo. Green cloth. 327p. Faint even toning of text. Fine. in VG dj. no owner marks. (small yellow circle sticker on dj front).

1st edn (1st vol 2nd printing). 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (a little scuffed at edges and lettering faded - otherwise G), no dustwrappers. Pp. xv + 318 [&] 327 (from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with her bookstamp on front free endpapers and neat 1952 inscription on front free endpaper of vol 1).

Condition: Good. used hardcover copy, missing dust jacket, wear to covers, sunning to pages fast shipping with tracking number.

1st ed. Dust jacket a little worn with browned spine. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1950. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Translated from the French by Louise Varese. 415 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Alvin Lustig & Connor. keywords: Europe France Literature Translated 19th Century World Literature. DESCRIPTION - POLITICAL INTRIGUE is always a fascinating subject for fiction. In the hands of a great master like Stendhal it can become utterly absorbing. And so it is in this novel, where we follow the adventures of young Lucien Leuwen, private secretary to the Minister of the Interior in the corrupt French government of Louis-Philippe. Our hero, son of a rich Parisian banker and wit, a blameless young man of embarrassingly high principles, has left his Army post in Nancy because of an unhappy love affair. Through his father's connections, a post is secured in the Ministry, and Lucien's eyes are dramatically opened to the 'realities' of French political life. He learns that his chief, the Minister, regularly plays the stock market with political tips. (The book takes its title - THE TELEGRAPH - from the fact that the French telegraph system - the original, visual semaphore type - is controlled by the government, so that information reaches the Ministers before it reaches the newspapers.) The Minister gambles, but so does his master the King! One of Lucien's first tasks is to suppress the scandal arising from a political murder. He handles this delicate affair so adroitly - though thoroughly disgusted by such shameless doings - that he is sent to the provinces to 'fix' an election. His career reaches a climax when his father begins to dabble in politics himself, is elected a Deputy, forms a successful cabal, and pushes his son, for political reasons, into a cold-blooded love affair with the most beautiful hostess in Paris. Such are the colorful threads in Stendhal's tapestry. But the background is equally rich - an incomparable historical portrait of an age and its ways. And it is less remote from us than might appear. The political climate of Louis-Philippe's reign, when an unpopular government was keeping itself in power by force and by trickery, has many points of comparison with the France of post-World-War-Il. And the American reader may even recognize certain similarities - plus ça change, plus c'est la mEme chose - with our own frenetic Washington. In France, Stendhal's third great masterpiece, LUCIEN LEUWEN, of which this is the second volume, is as well known and as much read as THE RED AND THE BLACK and THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA. American readers will be deeply grateful to Louise Varèse who has given them this magnificent translation, the first to be done in English of this important work. Stendhal never put the finishing touches on this book - he realized that he dare not publish it during his lifetime because of its outspoken revelations of political corruption - but we can be sure that it was one of his favorites from the amount of characteristic wit and irony which he lavished upon it. Mrs. Varèse, whose translation is outstanding both for its fidelity and its vivacity, has contributed a valuable introduction and copious historical notes. inventory #31977.