| Cosmopolis (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Bourget, Paul (Author), Lemaitre, Jules (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1409928551 ISBN-13: 9781409928553 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $17.84 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" (0.82 lbs) 252 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (1852-1935), was a French novelist and critic. In 1884 Bourget paid a long visit to Britain, where he wrote his first published story L'Irr parable. Cruelle Enigme followed in 1885; then Andr Cornelis (1886) and Mensonges (1887) - inspired by Octave Mirbeau's life - were received with much favour. Le Disciple (1889) showed the novelist in a graver attitude; while in 1891 Sensations d'Italie, notes of a tour in that country, revealed a fresh phase of his powers. In the same year appeared the novel Coeur de Femme, and Nouveaux Pastels, "types" of the characters of men, the sequel to a similar gallery of female types (Pastels, 1890). His later novels include: La Terre Promise (1892); Cosmopolis (1892); Une Idylle Tragique (1896); La Duchesse Bleue (1897); Le Fantasme (1901); Les Deux Soeurs (1905); and some volumes of shorter stories-Complications Sentimentales (1896), the powerful Drames Defamille (1898), Un Homme Fort (1900), L'Etape (1902). This powerful study of contemporary manners was followed by Un Divorce (1904), a defence of the Roman Catholic position that divorce is a violation of natural laws. |