Beauty on Earth (Paperback)


Through the door of a Swiss inn the reader steps into a painting. Two men talk to each other and before long the writer -someone like them, one of them- begins to address us. Thus commences the fugue that is Beauty on Earth, in which the coming of a beautiful orphan to her uncle's inn brings a gradual chaos upon his town. Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz published La Beaute in 1927. This translation by Michelle Bailat-Jones is a gift for which English language readers have waited decades

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Through the door of a Swiss inn the reader steps into a painting. Two men talk to each other and before long the writer -someone like them, one of them- begins to address us. Thus commences the fugue that is Beauty on Earth, in which the coming of a beautiful orphan to her uncle's inn brings a gradual chaos upon his town. Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz published La Beaute in 1927. This translation by Michelle Bailat-Jones is a gift for which English language readers have waited decades

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Imprint

Skomlin

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

July 2013

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

July 2013

Authors

Translators

Foreword by

Dimensions

216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

224

ISBN-13

978-0-9872760-7-0

Barcode

9780987276070

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LSN

0-9872760-7-7



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