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Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241339497
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64

Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

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26 Feb 2018
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26 Feb 2018
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Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'
Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.
  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241339497
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64
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About the author

Javier Marías

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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