LEVER, MAURICE; SUSAN EMANUEL (TRANSLATED BY) — Beaumarchais, a Biography

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2009, First American Edition. (ISBN: 9780374113285). Cloth, 8vo. 411 pages. Author of The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, also an inventor, entrepreneur, musician, dramatist, diplomat, spy, fighter, confidant of kings, a patron of the American War of Independence. A life that offers a fabulous window on the history of the 18th-century. Clean throughout, no marks or tears. Fine/Fine.