by Eugène Sue · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817014625
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«I misteri di Parigi» is the serial novel by Eugène Sue, published by Rizzoli in paperback (1144 pages, in Italian).
Set in nineteenth-century Paris, it follows Prince Rodolphe of Gerolstein, determined to redeem his past by helping the outcast and punishing those who oppress them. In the underworld he rescues the young prostitute Fleur-de-Marie and confronts Countess Sarah McGregor and Abbé Polidori, in a plot of suspense and social criticism.
Originally published in instalments between 1842 and 1843, it is the Italian edition of the French work «Les Mystères de Paris» and includes an introduction by Umberto Eco.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and serial novels, with an interest in popular narrative and historical Paris.
Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843.
