BRÉMOND, Sébastien.

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The Circle: First edition in English of Brémond's novel Le Cercle, first published in Paris in 1673, and here translated by Nathaniel Noel.This was the first of ten novels the author is known to have published from 1673 to 1680. "Typical of the shorter, more realistic fiction which abounds in the second half of the seventeenth century, Brémond's novels are characterized by their contemporary subject matter, their objective and often satirical appraisal of love and marriage, and in particular by a mild exoticism based demonstrably upon the author's personal experiences in Spain, Tunis, and elsewhere" (Grobe, pp. 134-5). The book is very scarce, with ESTC locating copies in only five institutions (Bodleian, Huntington, Newberry, William Clarke, Beinecke), and with only two copies appearing in auction records.

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