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Clio (1922)

Clio (1922)


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Text extracted from opening pages of book: A TRANSLATION BY WINIFRED STEPHENS LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORKs DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY MCMXXII Copyright, 1922, By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. TO EMILE ZOLA NOTE BY THE EDITORS The Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte is a translation of the text of a sumptuously illustrated volume de scriptive of this wonderful monument of human frailty and ambition, published in 1888 by Lemer cier et C Ie -' with plates by Rodolphe Pfnor. Al though the text has not been published apart from the plates in France, it seemed only fitting to include a translation of The Chateau de Faux le Vicomte in a complete edition of Monsieur Anatole France's works* THE BARD OF KYME : , ^ LONG the hill-side he came, follow-.''. ,/.;:., ing a path which skirted the sea. , ; His forehead was bare, deeply - fur-, Y ,.''; rowed and bound by a fillet of red r;-;:;; /*':; wool. The sea-breeze blew his white ov rr his temples and pressed the fleece of a snow-white beard against his chin. His turiic and his feet were the colour of the roads which he had trodden for so many years* A roughly made lyre hung at his side. He was known as the Aged One, and also as the Bard. Yet another name was given him by the children to whom he taught poetry and music, and many called him the Blind One, because his eyes, dim with age, were overhung by swollen lids, reddened by the smoke of the hearths beside which he was wont to sit when he sang. But his was no eternal night, and he was said to sec things invisible to other men. For three generations he had been wandering ceaselessly to and fro. And now, having sung all day to a King 3 4 CLIO of -^ Egea, he was returning to his home, the roof of which he could already see smoking in the distance ; for now, after walking all night without a halt for fear of being overtaken by the heat of the day, in the clear light of the dawn he could see the white Kyme, his birthplace. With his dog at his side, leaning on his crooked staff,


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548904657
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 462 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548904650
  • Publisher Date: 21 Feb 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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