Edmond Rostand

First time in Penguin Classics for Rostand's popular comedy about the love-sick swain with an ear for a fine phrase and an extravagantly large nose. Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem — he has a nose of stupendous...

No master to serve, no leash to bear. I walk as I please, and I speak as I dare.Poet, soldier and philosopher. Cyrano de Bergerac burns with brilliance. He's fiercely funny and intensely romantic – but behind the veil of wit is one large problem: his nose.Haunted by doubts and too proud to beg, he watches from the shadows as...