Le Roman D’un Enfant/Pierre Loti/1890/French/Rare Find/Very Good/Free Shipping

Le Roman D’un Enfant by Pierre Loti/1890/23rd edition/Very Rare. Written in French.

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This book is in very good to fine condition. No inscriptions or underlinings. Minor shelf wear. One flaw on back cover, see photo. Leather and marbled cover. Inside front and back have marbled papers. Sewn binding.

At his best Pierre Loti was unquestionably the finest descriptive writer of the day. In the delicate exactitude with which he reproduced the impression given to his own alert nerves by unfamiliar forms, colors, sounds and perfumes, he was without a rival. But he was not satisfied with this exterior charm; he desired to blend with it a moral sensibility of the extremest refinement, at once sensual and ethereal. Many of his best books are long sobs of remorseful memory, so personal, so intimate, that an English reader is amazed to find such depth of feeling compatible with the power of minutely and publicly recording what is felt. In spite of the beauty and melody and fragrance of Loti's books his mannerisms are apt to pall upon the reader, and his later books of pure description were rather empty. His greatest successes were gained in the species of confession, half-way between fact and fiction, which he essayed in his earlier books. When all his limitations, however, have been rehearsed, Pierre Loti remains, in the mechanism of style and cadence, one of the most original and most perfect French writers of the second half of the 19th century.

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