Beauty and the Jacobin (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): An Interlude of the French Revolution

by Booth Tarkington

Overview

This one act play follows Louis Valny-Cherault the Marquis, his sister Anne de Laseyne, and Eloise D’Anville. They are on a dangerous journey to escape France during the revolution. But faking documents and such becomes the least of their worries as Valsin, the Commissioner of the National Committee of Public Safety tries to trap them

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411439931
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	99
File size:	130 KB

About the Author

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.