Jean Racine. Oeuvres. Parigi, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'ainé, anno 7° (1798)

5 vols, 8vo, 140x87 mm, leather binding, gilt title and ornaments on the spine.

Collection of the most famous works of the famous French writer and playwright, in the French tragic theater of the seventeenth century. The characters who populate his works are defined anti-heroes, because at the mercy of primitive passions of the soul, of hatred, of turbid blood relationship (hatred between brothers, incestuous love), without will, overwhelmed by their irreparable internal conflicts. The plot is simple and linear and the language is high.