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Les Miserables. 5 vols. Notre Dame. 2 vols. Ninety-Three, 1 vol. The Man who Laughs. 2 vols. Toilers of the Sea. 2 vols. Hans of Iceland, 1 vol. Bug-Jargal; Claude Gueux; The Last Day of a Condemned, 1 vol.
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=BRICHANTEAU, ACTOR=.
Translated from the French of
=JULES CLARETIE, Manager of the Comedie Francaise=
With Preface by FRANCISQUE SARCEY.
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M. Jules Claretie has had a wide acquaintance with actors. He has had anopportunity of studying them still more closely since he has been themanager of the Comedie Francaise. Brichanteau is charming because he isalways treading the boards, because he believes in good faith that hislife is a drama, in which he plays the principal part. The work iswritten with a sprightly and witty pen.--FRANCISQUE SARCEY.
The translation has preserved the sprightly wit and grace of theoriginal, in which all the shades of character, frequently delicate andelusive, are brought out by refined turns of expression.--_PhiladelphiaPress._
As a whole, the book is a delightful and beautiful work of art. The manof whom Claretie writes becomes a living character to us, and we lovehim as we would such a man in real life.--_Cincinnati Tribune._
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One of the most pathetically humorous books ever written, and it shouldbecome a classic.--_St. Louis Mirror._
That there is a lovable, generous, elevated, human and humanepicturesqueness to the caricatured strolling player is shown with suchadmirable truth by Claretie, that his "Brichanteau" deserves permanencyamong desirable books.--_Washington Times._
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_Arrangement of the volumes._
ALPHONSE DAUDET. By Leon Daudet. To which is added"My Brother and Myself," by Ernest Daudet 1 vol.
FROMONT AND RISLER 1 vol.
THE NABOB 2 vols.
KINGS IN EXILE 1 vol.
NUMA ROUMESTAN 1 vol.
THE LITTLE PARISH and ROBERT HELMONT 1 vol.
LITTLE WHAT'S HIS NAME 1 vol.
TARTARIN OF TARASCON and TARTARIN ON THE ALPS 1 vol.
PORT TARASCON and LA BELLE NIVERNAISE 1 vol.
THIRTY YEARS IN PARIS, etc. 1 vol.
THE IMMORTAL, etc 1 vol.
SOUVENIRS OF A MAN OF LETTERS and ARTISTS' WIVES 1 vol.
THE EVANGELIST and ROSE AND NINETTE 1 vol.
JACK 2 vols.
MONDAY TALES 1 vol.
LETTERS FROM MY MILL, etc 1 vol.
SAPPHO 1 vol.
THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY 1 vol.
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Of the brilliant group of men who have made contemporaneous Frenchliterature, of that coterie toward which the eyes of all the readingworld have been turned with admiration and interest during the last halfa century, Daudet was the greatest. He was the most universal, the mostoriginal, the most human.--_From an Article in The Book Buyer, by L. VanVorst._
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