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Beauty On Earth

Valerie Trueblood

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 Beauté in 1927. This translation by Michelle Bailat-Jones is a gift for which English language readers have waited decades.

Language: English

Pages: 206

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Onesuch Press

Release: July 01, 2013

ISBN: 0987276077

ISBN 13: 9780987276070

Beauty On Earth

Valerie Trueblood

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 Beauté in 1927. This translation by Michelle Bailat-Jones is a gift for which English language readers have waited decades.

Language: English

Pages: 206

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Onesuch Press

Release: July 01, 2013

ISBN: 0987276077

ISBN 13: 9780987276070

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