ADVENTURES, LOVE AND CONSTANCY OF PAUL AND VIRGINIA

by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

$250 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

New-York: S. King, 1828. Early Republic American edition of an altered version of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's work, featuring a happy ending not present in the original. Very good plus. Item #44998 This is the story of two French colonist children who grow up side-by-side and fall in love in Mauritius, only to be torn apart by class expectations. PAUL AND VIRGINIA is punctuated by abolitionist themes, which this version

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