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Beautiful Double (Jolie Sosie): New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beautiful Double (Jolie Sosie) is a captivating novel by Sarah Bernhardt that plunges us into the Paris of the 1920s. This lesser-known work was written by the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt, nicknamed the golden voice by Victor Hugo, demonstrating her talents beyond the theatrical stage.
Set in the joyful and cosmopolitan Paris of the 1920s, the story follows young American billionaire Elly Gordon-Hope, who falls in love with the famous writer Jacques de Touzan during a ball where she has disguised herself as a pretty servant. The young man, seduced by this beautiful stranger, becomes friends with Elly without knowing that she is the real person behind the disguise.
Obsessed by the memory of this beautiful lookalike, Jacques ends up asking the young American woman to help him find this woman. How will Elly manage to escape from the impasse where her innocent disguise has led her? And will the young man, tortured by his heart divided between two loves, manage to guess the truth?
The novel unfolds in a web of intrigue and lies, where Elly finds herself caught in her own trap. Sarah Bernhardt, with her literary and poetic style, offers a fascinating dive into the customs of the era, while addressing universal themes such as love, identity and the quest for self.
This romantic comedy of errors showcases Bernhardt's understanding of performance, deception, and the complexities of human emotion-themes that resonated deeply with her own experience as one of the world's first international theatrical stars.
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