PAUL BOURGET: L'EAU PROFONDE, LE SENS DE LA MORT, LA DAME/FRANCE/4 BOOKS/193-? - $348 - (Harpers Ferry, WV)
PAUL BOURGET: L'EAU PROFONDE, LE SENS DE LA MORT, LA DAME, & UN DRAME DANS LE MONDE. FOUR BOOKS. Paris : Librairie Plon; Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Impimeurs-Editeurs, [193-?]. Scarce. A set of four solid and attractive scarce books. Published about 80 years ago, this edition is now long out of print and hard to find. According to Wikipedia: "Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (French: [bu???]; 2 September 1852 – 25 December 1935) was a French novelist[1][2] and critic.[3] As a writer of verse Bourget's poems, which were collected in two volumes (1885–1887), throw light upon his mature method and the later products of his art. It was in criticism that he excelled. Notable are the Sensations d'Italie (1891), and the various psychological studies.[4] Bourget's reputation as a novelist is assured in some academic and intellectual circles but while they were widely popular in his time, his novels have long been largely forgotten by the general reading public. Impressed by the art of Henry Beyle (Stendhal), he struck out on a new course at a moment when the realist school was the vogue in French fiction. With Bourget, observation was mainly directed to the human character. At first his purpose seemed to be purely artistic, but when Le Disciple appeared, in 1889, the preface to that story revealed his moral enthusiasm. After that, he varied between his earlier and his later manner, but his work in general was more seriously conceived. He painted the intricate emotions of women, whether wronged, erring or actually vicious; and he described the ideas, passions and failures of the young men of France. One of his poems was the inspiration for an art song by Claude Debussy titled Beau Soir. Other settings by Debussy of poems by Bourget include 'Romance' and 'Les Cloches'..." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Four 12mo - sized softcover books; about 350 pages of text in each. Good to Good-? conditions: front hinge of L'eau P…
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