A Country Doctor Classic Reprint

Author : Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN 13 : 9781330982242
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Honoré De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 1 of 25 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Honore De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 1 of 25: The First Complete Translation Into English When, many years after its original publication, Balzac reprinted "Les Chouans" as a part of the "Comedie Hu-maine," he spoke of it in the dedication to his old friend M. Theodore Dablin as "perhaps better than its reputation." He probably referred to the long time which had passed without a fresh demand for it; for, as has been pointed out in the General Introduction to this Series of translations, it first made his fame, and with it he first emerged from the purgatory of anonymous hack-writing. It would therefore have argued a little ingratitude in him had he shown himself dissatisfied with the original reception. The book, however, has, it may be allowed, never ranked among the special favorites of Balzacians; and though it was considerably altered and improved from its first form, it has certain defects which are not likely to escape any reader. In it Balzac was still trying the adventure-novel, the novel of incident; and though he here substitutes a nobler model-Scott, for whom he always had a reverence as intelligent as it was generous-for the Radcliffian or Lewisian ideals of his nonage, he was still not quite at home. Some direct personal knowledge or experience of the matters he wrote about was always more or less necessary to him; and the enthusiasm with which he afterward acknowledged, in a letter to Beyle, the presence of such knowledge in that writer's military passages, confesses his own sense of inferiority. It is not, however, in the actual fighting scenes, though they are not of the first class, that the drawbacks of "Les Chouans" lie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."