The Chartreuse of Parma (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Maurich Hewlett
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1331252229
ISBN-139781331252221
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Awarded the highly honourable task of presenting De Stendhal with his credentials to the English public, I say that he ought to be greatly received, not only on account of his genius, but on that of the kind his genius is of. A dry point, a whim incarnate, a thinker who drove his passions before him through close walls, he fenced himself about with so many reserves, yet urged so impetuously through them that, had he accomplished no more than this one book (as the fact is, in a technical sense), you would still be sure of the whole of him; it had still been possible to appraise him accurately by the side of his great coeval, Balzac, or his great successor, Merimee. He is literally, however, author of two romances and some half-dozen contes; of a treatise, De I'Amour which merely articulates theories clothed to better purpose by his fancy; and of various scattered papers of travel (not to be made into books by book-covers), concerning which it is enough here to say that our respect for his acute observation is mainly lost in regrets that he observed such unnecessary detail. On the whole, and this particular work apart, I believe he will be found the most interesting fact in his books.
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Awarded the highly honourable task of presenting De Stendhal with his credentials to the English public, I say that he ought to be greatly received, not only on account of his genius, but on that of the kind his genius is of. A dry point, a whim incarnate, a thinker who drove his passions before him through close walls, he fenced himself about with so many reserves, yet urged so impetuously through them that, had he accomplished no more than this one book (as the fact is, in a technical sense), you would still be sure of the whole of him; it had still been possible to appraise him accurately by the side of his great coeval, Balzac, or his great successor, Merimee. He is literally, however, author of two romances and some half-dozen contes; of a treatise, De I'Amour which merely articulates theories clothed to better purpose by his fancy; and of various scattered papers of travel (not to be made into books by book-covers), concerning which it is enough here to say that our respect for his acute observation is mainly lost in regrets that he observed such unnecessary detail. On the whole, and this particular work apart, I believe he will be found the most interesting fact in his books.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
