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Perfume : the story of a murderer
Süskind, Patrick2020
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In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent...
Main title:
Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Süskind ; translated by John E. Woods.
Author:
Süskind, Patrick, authorWoods, John E. (John Edwin), translator
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Books, 2020.©1986
Collation:
295 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780241420294 (paperback)
Dewey class:
833.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
669374