Perfume :
Süskind, Patrick
Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Süskind ; translated by John E. Woods. - London : Hamish Hamilton, 2010. - 263 p. ; 20 cm.
This translation originally published: 1986.
"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 Gernouille 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 leavs no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent..."-- Publisher's description.
Translated from the German.
9780141041155 0141041153
Perfumes industry--France--Fiction
Murderers--France--Fiction
France--Social conditions--18th century--Fiction
833.914
Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Süskind ; translated by John E. Woods. - London : Hamish Hamilton, 2010. - 263 p. ; 20 cm.
This translation originally published: 1986.
"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 Gernouille 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 leavs no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent..."-- Publisher's description.
Translated from the German.
9780141041155 0141041153
Perfumes industry--France--Fiction
Murderers--France--Fiction
France--Social conditions--18th century--Fiction
833.914