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The Girl Who Loved Camellias, by Julie Kavanagh - review

17 August 2013

9:00 AM

17 August 2013

9:00 AM

The Girl who Loved Camellias Julie Kavanagh

Knopf, pp.288, £19.99, ISBN: 9780307270795

Verdi’s La Traviata is the story of a courtesan who is redeemed when she gives up the man she loves in order to preserve his family honour, and then dies tragically in his arms. Verdi based his opera on a novel by Alexander Dumas the younger, The Lady of the Camellias (1852).

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