{"product_id":"cyrano-de-bergerac-signet-classics","title":"Cyrano de Bergerac (Signet Classics)","description":"Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, Cyrano de Bergerac is the story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival.\n\nCyrano de Bergerac occupies a unique place in the modern theater. Deliberately disavowing realism and contemporary relevance, Edmond Rostand’s masterpiece represents a turning back in both time and spirit to an earlier age of high adventure and soaring idealism. Its magnificent hero, Cyrano—noble of soul and grotesque in appearance, gallant Gascon soldier, brilliant wit, and timid lover, alternately comic, heroic, tragic—represents one of the most challenging of all acting roles in its complexity and mercurial changes of mood. From its original production to the present day, Cyrano de Bergerac has enjoyed a charmed existence on the stage, its unflagging pace of action and eloquence of language enchanting critics and public alike. Here, in a superlative translation, is the ultimate triumph of the great French romantic tradition—a work which, in the words of the French critic Lemaître, “prolongs, unites and blends…three centuries of comic fantasy and moral grace.”\n\nTranslated by Lowell Bair\nWith an Introduction by Eteel Lawson\nand an Afterword by Cynthia B. Kerr\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0451531981\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0451531981.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rostand, Edmond|Bair, Lowell|Lawson, Eteel|Kerr, Cynthia B.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Mass market paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Mass market paperback in GOOD condition with normal wear from use. Cover art my differ from that shown in photo.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43094922985533,"sku":"BVV.0451531981.G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0451531981-0.jpg?v=1775682162","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/cyrano-de-bergerac-signet-classics","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}