The Petty Bourgeois, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333052669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Excerpt from The Petty Bourgeois, Vol. 1 In the following pages, Madame, will be found one of those stories which come to an author's mind, he knows not whence, and take it captive before he has time to consider what sort of a welcome it will receive from the public, the all-powerful judge of the moment. Feeling almost sure of your indul gence for my infatuation, [dedicate this book to you: is it not fitting that it should belong to you as the tithe in the old days belonged to the Church, in memory of God, by whom everything is made to bloom and to ripen, in the fields and in the intellect? A few bits of clay, left by Moliere at the foot of his colossal statue of Tartuffe, are here worked over by a hand more audacious than clever; but, how ever far below the greatest of writers of comedy I am and must remain, I shall be content to have turned these crumbs picked up in the foreground of his play to some account, by exhibiting the modern hypocrite at work. The thing that most encouraged me in this difficult undertaking was that I found it to be entirely distinct from any religious question which 'must be put out of sight of one so devout as yourself, and because of that which a great writer has called indifference IN matters OF religion. 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.