Phaedra [Mass Market Paperback] Racine, Jean

Description

Paperback cover has some wear and fading. Pages are clean and the binding is secure.

This well-aged copy of Jean Racine’s “Phaedra” bears the gentle patina of a book cherished by generations of readers. Racine, a 17th-century French dramatist, was a master of the neoclassical tragedy, and “Phaedra” is considered his crowning achievement. Drawing inspiration from Euripides’ ancient Greek myth, Racine reimagined the tale of Phaedra’s ill-fated passion for her stepson Hippolytus through the lens of 17th-century French society. With its elegant Alexandrine verse and exploration of the timeless themes of obsession, guilt, and the inexorable force of fate, “Phaedra” has endured as a seminal work of world literature. This mass-market paperback edition, though bearing the gentle wear of repeated readings, invites collectors and literature enthusiasts to immerse themselves in Racine’s poetic genius and witness the enduring power of classical tragedy reinterpreted through the prism of the French literary canon.