This book entitled 'Sa Gitna ng Lusak', is an adaptation by Gerardo Chanco of the novel La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas (the son).
Chanco used for his source text not the original French version, but a translation into Spanish called 'La Dama de las Camelias' by an unknown author. Chanco did not know French but both he and his wife who was a language teacher were speaking Spanish fluently.

The translation into English by Edmund Gosse (1902)came out first before Chanco's translation (1915) into Tagalog.
The newest translation is by David Coward (1986,2000).
On April 18, 1904 this same novel was adapted into a Broadway musical, and from 1953 to 1963, there were eighteen shows entitled Camille on Broadway. This was aside from Giuseppe Verdi's showing of La Traviata (1853) which was an opera adaptation written by Francesco Maria Pave of this very same novel, La dame aux camelias, and first shown in Venice.
Published by the ATENEO DE MANILA University Press under the supervision of CHANCO GUZMAN
Quezon City, Philippines
A Filipino Text
ISBN 971-550-62-0

Ex-library. The book has 260 pages, measuring 7"H x 5"W x 1/2" Thick.
Used / Laminated / In very good condition.

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