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Perfume: the story of a murderer
✍ Scribed by Patrick Süskind
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0241975328
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Patrick Süskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris - now available for the first time in ebook
**** 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 . . .
'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution'Guardian
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'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity ... Clever, stylish, absorbing and well...
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