Avenues to Success for 03/05/10

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

     - Madame de Staël (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein), 1766-1817, Swiss born French speaking writer

Image source: Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

The Great de Staël
By Richard Holmes

     A review of 5 books about Madame De Staël in the New York Review of Books

Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman
by Francine du Plessix Gray
Atlas & Co., 248 pp.

Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël
by J. Christopher Herold
Grove, 500 pp.

Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
by Renee Winegarten
Yale University Press, 343 pp.

Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile
by Angelica Goodden
Oxford University Press, 331 pp.

Corinne, or Italy
by Madame de Staël, translated from the French by Sylvia Raphael
Oxford World's Classics, 422 pp.

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