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Some slight marks to outside cover. Pages in clean and unmarked condition. A few corner pages slightly bent. Very Good Copy.

Good copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover shows some shelf wear. Translated by John Mortimer. Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof. They concoct a play-based on a perfumed letter-to trap him at the Hotel Coq d'Or in Montretout. In true Feydeau fashion the plan misfires, the plot is complicated by confused identities, revolving beds, a great many doors and the fact that the stupid hotel port, Poche, is the exact double of Victor Emmanuel. 5 women, 9 men.Period: the early 1900s.

Clean and unmarked pages. Some slight shelf wear on outside cover. Small whiteout over initials on 2nd inside page.from Royal Court Writers Series launched in 1981.

Very Good copy. Pages clean and unmarked. Only slight shelf wear apparent."The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audiences for more than two centuries. They are the invention of the Irish-born playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and they unfold, collide, and backfire hilariously in his masterpiece, The School for Scandal, a play still considered by many the best comedy of manners in English."

Excellent condition. Almost like new. Very minor shelf wear. Pages clean.