The Heirs Of Rabourdin A Comdey In Three Acts By Emile Zola

Author : Emile Zola
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ISBN 13 : 9781330558683
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book The Heirs of Rabourdin written by Emile Zola and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Heirs of Rabourdin: A Comedy in Three Acts The production of The Heirs of Rabourdin was a mistake. I own it frankly, adding that I alone am the culprit. But the selection of this play was not a vulgar error of judgment, nor was it the result of thoughtless impulse. I had good and sound reasons for resuscitating this farce, which (in so far as English people knew) had been slumbering for twenty years in well-deserved oblivion. In the first place I like the play; I think it clever, simple, direct, humorous, though much spun out and harping on one string. That is simply a matter of opinion. Secondly: the play was not tried under favourable circumstances in France; it was produced at the Theatre Beaumarchais - a, what we would call, transpontine theatre. Thirdly: the very fact that the play was demolished with fury in Paris clearly proves that partiality had its hand in the game. Zola had not for nothing written feuilleton after feuilleton of mordant theatrical criticism. They were waiting for him, and when, the bold man that he is, he came forward with this farce, they turned their pens into clubs and struck at him. 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.