Chien Caillou Classic Reprint

Author : Louis Enault
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332549160
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Le Chien Du Capitaine (Classic Reprint) written by Louis Enault and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Le Chien Du Capitaine When at last he returned to France, he was appointed art critic to one of the Parisian newspapers, le Pays, and literary critic to le Constitutionnel. It was about 1857 that he made a successful venture in imaginative literature, with a short tale, la Bourgeoise de Prague, and a novel, Christine. From this date till the present time, he has produced novels and books of travel, with essays in art criticism in the interval, amounting in all to more than thirty volumes. Scarcely a year has passed which has not seen something new from his pen, and many of his articles in the reviews (such as la Revue contemporaine, l'Illustration, la Revue francaise, and the Athen um) are signed by the nom de plume of Louis de Vermond. The novels of Enault are often made up of French manners and views of life placed in a foreign setting; and it is this exotic quality which gives them one of their characteristics. Another of his peculiarities is to have devoted much of his work in romance to the study of various types of woman. This feature is not absent in the little story that forms part of the present volume; and Madame Pigault is evidently drawn by a man who has some acquaintance with certain mental habits and attitudes which are popularly considered as forming the peculiar inheritance of the fair sex. Le Chien du capitaine (published in 1870) is on the whole, notwithstanding its little tricks of style and occasional verbosity - which place it in striking contrast to la Belle-Nivernaise, for example - a little story well suited to the purposes of the school room. The French is not difficult, the tone is kindly and far removed from the pessimism of most of the stories of the present moment, and there is a strain of humor in it which cannot fail to commend it to the ordinary school boy and girl. 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."