An edition of Le diable au corps (1923)

The Devil in the Flesh

Marion Boyars Modern Classics

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An edition of Le diable au corps (1923)

The Devil in the Flesh

Marion Boyars Modern Classics

by

  • ★★★ 3.0 (3 ratings)
  • 26 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of sixteen, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the Front. The liaison soon becomes a scandal and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening -- even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.

Raymond Radiguet wrote The Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, drawing on his own adolescent love affair with an older woman. He died from typhoid fever at the age of twenty.

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Marion Boyars Publishers
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English

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Subjects

Classic Literature Fiction French language Fiction, romance, general Readers Roman Französisch Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, general World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects

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France

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Cover of: The Devil in the Flesh
The Devil in the Flesh
2005, Marion Boyars Publishers
Paperback in English - Marion Boyars Modern Classics
Cover of: Le diable au corps
Le diable au corps
September 2, 1998, Mille et une nuits
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Le diable au corps.
Le diable au corps.
1993, J'ai Lu
in French
Cover of: Le diable au corps
Le diable au corps
1983, B. Blackwell
in French
Cover of: Le diable au corps.
Le diable au corps.
1983, Librarie Général Française
in French
Cover of: The Devil in the flesh
The Devil in the flesh: a novel
1982, M. Boyars
in English
Cover of: The devil in the flesh
The devil in the flesh: a novel
1968, Calder & Boyars
in English and French

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Book Details

First Sentence

"I am sure to incur a good deal of reproach."

Edition Notes

"Translation first published in 1968 in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars."

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London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.912
Library of Congress
PQ2635.A25 D513 2005, PQ2635.A25

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3431631M
ISBN 10
0714534021
ISBN 13
9780714534022
LCCN
2005057447
OCLC/WorldCat
58455615
LibraryThing
6897629
Goodreads
967909

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Work ID
OL3050752W

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Work Description

Je vais encourir bien des reproches. Mais qu'y puis-je ? Est-ce ma faute si j'eus douze ans quelques mois avant la declaration de la guerre ? Sans doute, les troubles qui me vinrent de cette periode extraordinaire furent d'une sorte qu'on n'eprouve jamais a cet age ; mais comme il n'existe rien d'assez fort pour nous vieillir malgre les apparences, c'est en enfant que je devais me conduire dans une aventure ou deja un homme eut eprouve de l'embarras.

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I am sure to incur a good deal of reproach.
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