Immagine dell'autore.

Edmond About (1828–1885)

Autore di The King of the Mountains

53+ opere 268 membri 7 recensioni

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Fonte dell'immagine: Octave Uzanne

Opere di Edmond About

The King of the Mountains (1857) 81 copie
Il naso d'un notaio (1862) 28 copie
Les mariages de Paris (1939) 8 copie
Germaine (2011) 8 copie
Le Progrès (1867) 3 copie
The Fellah (2009) 3 copie
Tolla (2011) 3 copie
Le mari imprevu (1931) 1 copia
Le nez d’un notaire (2020) 1 copia

Opere correlate

Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — Collaboratore — 181 copie
Stories to Remember, Volume II (1956) — Collaboratore — 126 copie
The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories Volumes 3 & 4 (1900) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
French short stories (1933) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
About, Edmond
Nome legale
About, Edmond François Valentin
Data di nascita
1828-02-14
Data di morte
1885-01-16
Luogo di sepoltura
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Francia
Luogo di nascita
Dieuze, Moselle, Lorraine, France
Luogo di morte
Paris, France
Luogo di residenza
Dieuze, France
Paris, France
Athens, Greece
Attività lavorative
dramatist
journalist
author
Organizzazioni
Académie française

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So this one was entertaining enough, maybe 2.75 stars or something. Its a suspended animation story, in plot something like Forever Young in tone more like American Pickle. Its a Farce, with a capital F for French.

The revived character a pretty stereotypical blustering loud character that causes chaos wherever he goes and gets away with it through ignorance and force of personality. It becomes downright cartoonish in places.
The humour is fairly basic so doesn’t age badly but it probably wasn’t that funny to begin with.

There are some interesting ideas in terms of the method of suspension, Tardigrades even make an appearance, i wasn’t even sure we discovered those before the invention of the electron-microscope but here they are in the 1860’s.

Not sure who if anyone i’d recommend this one too but it passed the time. As long as your braced for the farcical humour you might find some elements of interest here.

Made available by the Merril Collection.
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wreade1872 | 1 altra recensione | Jul 25, 2022 |
Trayecto en tren 1883
 
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ElCapitanTrueno | Nov 16, 2020 |
A short amusing novella about a Greek brigand on a large scale. This story intersects with Hamburg botanist, Hermann Schulz. The story rests around Hermann and two wealthy society ladies being kidnapped by the brigands and their escapes.
½
 
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Tess_W | 1 altra recensione | Jul 20, 2019 |
The book contains six novellas: Les jumeaux de l'hôtel Corneille, L'oncle et le neveu, Terrains à vendre, Le buste, Gorgeon, La mère de la marquise. They all deal with marriage: how to achieve it, how to arrange it. It was written in the 1850s and offers a delightful glimpse into Paris society at various levels. The writing is slightly sarcastic at times, but never cruel.
½
 
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MissWatson | Jun 7, 2018 |

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Opere
53
Opere correlate
5
Utenti
268
Popolarità
#86,166
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
7
ISBN
94
Lingue
4

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