Edmond About (1828–1885)
Forfatter af The King of the Mountains
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Værker af Edmond About
Stories by Foreign Authors: French. Volume 1 2 eksemplarer
Classics Illustrated: The King of the Mountains 2 eksemplarer
La novela de un hombre de bien 2 eksemplarer
Rome and the Papacy: A History of the Men, Manners, and Temporal Government of Rome in the Nineteenth Century, As… (2010) 2 eksemplarer
Les jumeaux de l'Hôtel Corneille = The twins 1 eksemplar
The Nose of a Notary: Le Nez d'un Notaire 1 eksemplar
Kanonikova ćerka 1 eksemplar
The story of an honest man 1 eksemplar
La Fille du Chanoine et L'Album du rgiment 1 eksemplar
L'Homme A l'Oreille Cassée: Edited With Grammatical, Historical And Explanatory Notes And A Complete… (2017) 1 eksemplar
Le colonel Fougasse 1 eksemplar
Rome contemporaine / Edmond About 1 eksemplar
La Prusse en 1860 1 eksemplar
Le Décaméron du Salon de Peinture pour l'Année 1881 (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 1 eksemplar
Le roman d'un brave homme / par Edmond About ; édition illustrée de 52 compositions par Adrien Marie 1899 [Leather… (2019) 1 eksemplar
Gaetana: Drame En Cinq Actes En Prose, Avec Preface Inedite Et Postface (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 1 eksemplar
Rouge et noir, a tale of Baden-Baden 1 eksemplar
Nema mesta za mrtve 1 eksemplar
La Gre contemporaine 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The dead Leman, and other tales from the French — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- About, Edmond
- Juridisk navn
- About, Edmond François Valentin
- Fødselsdato
- 1828-02-14
- Dødsdag
- 1885-01-16
- Begravelsessted
- Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- France
- Fødested
- Dieuze, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- Dødssted
- Paris, France
- Bopæl
- Dieuze, France
Paris, France
Athens, Greece - Erhverv
- dramatist
journalist
author - Organisationer
- Académie française
Medlemmer
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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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- Værker
- 53
- Also by
- 5
- Medlemmer
- 269
- Popularitet
- #85,899
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 7
- ISBN
- 94
- Sprog
- 4
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.… (mere)