Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand [ECONO-CLAD HARDCOVER] 1979 • Bantam

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (a New Version in English Verse by Brian Hooker)

ECONO-CLAD HARDCOVER [1979] BANTAM BOOKS 

Rare school edition pocket hardcover variant of this Bantam edition, published originally as a mass market paperback. 

Book is in excellent condition.  Light shelf wear;

Reads like new and unmarked  w. some inevitable tanning to pages.

Small stamp and marking on underside of cover; tiny mark to top of text block.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand's extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero--Cyrano De Bergerac--and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage.

This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.