Les Misérables - Volume II - Cosette: Book Fourth - The Gorbeau Hovel and Book Fifth - For A Black Hunt, A Mute Pack

Hugo, Victor

ISBN 10: 3640249720 / ISBN 13: 9783640249725

Editore: Grin Verlag, 2009

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• Titolo: Les Misérables - Volume II - Cosette: Book Fourth - The Gorbeau Hovel and Book Fifth - For A Black Hunt, A Mute Pack
• Editore: Grin Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3640249720
• ISBN 13: 9783640249725
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Classic from the year 2009 in the subject French Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK FOURTH. THE GORBEAU HOVEL*** CHAPTER I. MASTER GORBEAU*** Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of the Salpetriere, and who had mounted to the Barriere d'Italie by way of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day than a cemetery. It was the old quarter of the Marche-aux-Chevaux.[...] *** BOOK FIFTH. FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK[...] CHAPTER I. THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY[...] An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further on. The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify the facts if they care to take the trouble. For