Edmond About (1828–1885)
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Stories by Foreign Authors: French. Volume 1 2 exemplaren
Classics Illustrated: The King of the Mountains 2 exemplaren
La novela de un hombre de bien 2 exemplaren
Rome and the Papacy: A History of the Men, Manners, and Temporal Government of Rome in the Nineteenth Century, As… (2010) 2 exemplaren
Les jumeaux de l'Hôtel Corneille = The twins 1 exemplaar
The Nose of a Notary: Le Nez d'un Notaire 1 exemplaar
Kanonikova ćerka 1 exemplaar
The story of an honest man 1 exemplaar
La Fille du Chanoine et L'Album du rgiment 1 exemplaar
L'Homme A l'Oreille Cassée: Edited With Grammatical, Historical And Explanatory Notes And A Complete… (2017) 1 exemplaar
Le colonel Fougasse 1 exemplaar
Rome contemporaine / Edmond About 1 exemplaar
La Prusse en 1860 1 exemplaar
Le Décaméron du Salon de Peinture pour l'Année 1881 (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 1 exemplaar
Le roman d'un brave homme / par Edmond About ; édition illustrée de 52 compositions par Adrien Marie 1899 [Leather… (2019) 1 exemplaar
Gaetana: Drame En Cinq Actes En Prose, Avec Preface Inedite Et Postface (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 1 exemplaar
Rouge et noir, a tale of Baden-Baden 1 exemplaar
Nema mesta za mrtve 1 exemplaar
La Gre contemporaine 1 exemplaar
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The dead Leman, and other tales from the French — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- About, Edmond
- Officiële naam
- About, Edmond François Valentin
- Geboortedatum
- 1828-02-14
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1885-01-16
- Graflocatie
- Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- France
- Geboorteplaats
- Dieuze, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- Plaats van overlijden
- Paris, France
- Woonplaatsen
- Dieuze, France
Paris, France
Athens, Greece - Beroepen
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journalist
author - Organisaties
- Académie française
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A short amusing novella about a Greek brigand on a large scale. This story intersects with Hamburg botanist, Hermann Schulz. The story rests around Hermann and two wealthy society ladies being kidnapped by the brigands and their escapes.
The book contains six novellas: Les jumeaux de l'hôtel Corneille, L'oncle et le neveu, Terrains à vendre, Le buste, Gorgeon, La mère de la marquise. They all deal with marriage: how to achieve it, how to arrange it. It was written in the 1850s and offers a delightful glimpse into Paris society at various levels. The writing is slightly sarcastic at times, but never cruel.
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- Populariteit
- #85,899
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The revived character a pretty stereotypical blustering loud character that causes chaos wherever he goes and gets away with it through ignorance and force of personality. It becomes downright cartoonish in places.
The humour is fairly basic so doesn’t age badly but it probably wasn’t that funny to begin with.
There are some interesting ideas in terms of the method of suspension, Tardigrades even make an appearance, i wasn’t even sure we discovered those before the invention of the electron-microscope but here they are in the 1860’s.
Not sure who if anyone i’d recommend this one too but it passed the time. As long as your braced for the farcical humour you might find some elements of interest here.
Made available by the Merril Collection.… (meer)