| Led Astray by Octave Feuillet, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Short Stories Contributor(s): Feuillet, Octave (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603127623 ISBN-13: 9781603127622 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Octave Feuillet was a French novelist and dramatist. He began his writing career as a collaborator of Dumas the elder, but then branched out into his own work. He was popular in the Second Empire, and the Empress Eugenie once took a part in one of his plays. "Led Astray" is a short novel in which a man of letters, on a government commission to survey an old abbey, meets the Countess of Palme, a typical fast young lady of the Second Empire. Inability to admit to and act upon their feelings for each other has tragic consequences. As one critic of the time commented on Feuillet, "He has to do with things as he finds them, and if we are to believe him, what he finds is a lack of culture in women, and lack of sympathy in men, and a lack of principle in both." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 108 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Feuillet, Octave: - "Octave Feuillet (1821 - 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was elected to the Academie francaise in 1862 and in 1868 he was made librarian of Fontainebleau palace, where he had to reside for a month or two in each year. In 1867 he produced his masterpiece Monsieur de Camors and in 1872 he wrote Julia de Trecoeur. He spent his last years, after the sale of Les Paillers, in ceaseless wandering, due to his depression and ill health. He died in Paris on 29 December 1890. His last book was Honneur d'artiste (1890)." |
