The Wandering Jew, Book X of XI by Eugene Sue, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Softcover

Sue, Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159818685X ISBN 13: 9781598186857

Verlag: Aegypan, 2005

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Book by Sue Eugene

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During the interview of Adrienne with Rose-Pompon a touching scene took place between Agricola and Mother Bunch, who had been much surprised at Mdlle. de Cardoville's condescension with regard to the grisette. Immediately after the departure of Adrienne, Agricola had knelt down beside Mother Bunch, and said to her, with profound emotion: "We are alone, and I can at length tell you what weighs upon my heart. This act is too cruel -- to die of misery and despair, and not to send to me for assistance."

"Listen to me, Agricola --"

"No, there is no excuse for this. What! we called each other by the names of brother and sister, and for fifteen years gave every proof of sincere affection -- and, when the day of misfortune comes, you quit life without caring for those you must leave behind -- without considering that to kill yourself is to tell them they are indifferent to you!"

"Forgive me, Agricola! it is true. I had never thought of that," said the workgirl, casting down her eyes; "but poverty -- want of work --"

"Misery! want of work! and was I not here?"

"And despair!"

Biografía del autor:

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (1804 - 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843. His naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, Kernock le pirate (1830), Atar-Gull (1831), La Salamandre (1832), La Coucaratcha (1832) and others, which were composed at the height of the Romantic movement of 1830. In the quasi-historical style he wrote Jean Cavalier and Latréaumont. His Mathilde (1841) contains the first known expression of the popular proverb "La vengeance se mange très-bien froide", lately expressed in English as "Revenge is a dish best served cold". He was strongly affected by the socialist ideas of the day and these prompted his most famous works, the "anti-Catholic" novels: The Mysteries of Paris and The Wandering Jew, which were among the most popular specimens of the serial novel. These works depicted the intrigues of the nobility and the harsh life of the underclass to a wide public. Les Mystères de Paris spawned a class of imitations all over the world, the city mysteries.

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• Verlag: Aegypan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 159818685X
• ISBN 13: 9781598186857
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 116