The Merciful Women

Federico Andahazi

Translated by Alberto Manguel earliest edition we have, 2000 Grove Press, 2002 paperback 192 pages

"It is Switzerland, in 1816. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley's wife Mary and Byron's physician Dr Polidori are ensconced in the Villa Diodati beside Lake Geneva. Polidori is a hanger-on whose presence is merely tolerated. Yet he will stop at nothing to outwit them all. He enters a Faustian pact with an elusive penfriend, Annette Legrand, who is the mysterious third member of the infamous Legrand sisters, th...

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Alberto Manguel 3 printings we hold · 2000–2002 · Bantam Doubleday Dell

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The Merciful Women paperback · 2002 · Grove Press · 192 pages · 9780802138262
Merciful Women edition · 2000 · Bantam Doubleday Dell · 229 pages · 9780385600538
The Merciful Women hardcover · 2000 · Grove Press · 192 pages · 9780802116741

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