TY - BOOK AU - Saint-Pierre,Bernardin de AU - Williams,Helen Maria TI - Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Slavery -- Fiction KW - Love stories KW - Friendship -- Fiction KW - Shipwrecks -- Fiction KW - Mauritius -- Fiction KW - Death -- Fiction KW - Charity -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_et_Virginie; Release date is 2004-01-01; Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, Grenet and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre" by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is a novel published in 1788. Set on the island of Mauritius, it tells the story of two childhood friends raised together in natural simplicity who fall in love as they grow older. Their idyllic existence faces disruption when Virginie is sent to France to claim an inheritance, separating the devoted pair. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, this tale explores the clash between natural virtue and artificial society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10859 ER -