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Excerpt from The Novels, Romances, and Memoirs of Alphonse Daudet, Vol. 4: Numa Roumestan, And, Rose and Ninette How admirable a creation Numa Roumestan is may be measured by the fact that his character fits American politicians, allowance being made for certain superficial traits that do not belong to men of our race. It is not merely in France that one can put the label Numa on a shifty but eloquent phrasemonger, ever ready to attempt the highest offices of State by the aid of promises and empty, booby-catching rhetoric. We also have great men like Numa, who confessed, with more frankness than we find in our own windy examples, that he could only think after he had begun to speak - men of note upon whom time and reżection have the same effect as humidity upon phosphorus. Numa is not an ordinary villain but a kindly soul, not without occasional gleams of humor and the ability to see the faults of his own tempera ment, but he includes a strain of Oriental paganism which makes it impossible for him to be faithful, especially in love. While Rosalie is no blue-stock ing and not really cold, yet she has self-respect, is intellectual, reserved and proud. Apart from the theme of North and South discussed in this couple we have the wider theme, applicable to all man kind, of the active, żeshly temperament attracted by, yet inevitably at war with, the passive intel' 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.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

• Pełny tytuł: The Novels, Romances, and Memoirs of Alphonse Daudet, Vol. 4
• Podtytuł: Numa Roumestan, And, Rose and Ninette (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Alphonse Daudet
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 568
• EAN: 9781333390860
• ISBN: 1333390866
• ID: 14194869
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 752 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 30 mm
• Data wydania: 30. August 2016

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