A Love Crime. E-book. Formato PDF Paul Bourget   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Neither has he been afraid of allowing his stories to point a moral. Art for art's sake is all very well, but it does not detract from the artistic quality of a work of fiction that it should inculcate an ethical lesson. Charles Reade, Dickens, Thackery — and how many others — have fought some abuse of public administration, or, with the weapons of irony and invective, attacked some darling vice, some pet dereliction of our faulty, stumbling human nature. And it is because they get right down to human nature that these masters, and such as they, are able to move us.

The Disciple. E-book. Formato PDF Paul Bourget   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This Rue Guy de la Brosse, which leads from the Rue de Jussieu to the Rue Linné, forms part of a veritable little province bounded by the Jardin des Plantes, the Hopital de la Pitié, the wine warehouse and the first rise of sainte-genevieve. That is to say, that it permits those familiar inquisitions of glance impossible in the larger districts where the come-and go of existence ceaselessly renews the tide of carriages and of people. Only persons of small incomes live here, modest professors, employees of the museum, students who wish to study, all young literary people who dread the temptations of the Latin Quarter. The shops are patronized by this clientele, which is as regular as that of a suburb. The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the washerwoman, the apothecary, are all spoken of in the singular by the domestics who make the purchases.

A Divorce. E-book. Formato PDF Paul Bourget   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is precisely your reputation for learning, interrupted Madame Darras, which in?uenced me in undertaking this visit.