Alexandre Dumas (Père) His Life An Works (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Davidson, Arthur Fitzwilliam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440069786 ISBN 13: 9781440069789

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

Synopsis

Preface IT may be to be exact, it is a somewhat presumptuous thing to write a book and call it Alexandre Dumas. There is no question here of Introducing an unknown man or discovering an unrecognized genius. Dumas is, and has been for the better part of a century, the property of all the world :there can be little new to say about one of whom so much has already been said. Remembering also, as I do, a dictum by one of our best known men of letters to the effect that the adequate biographer of Dumas neither is noris likely to be, I accept the saying at this moment with all the unfeigned humility which experience entitles me to claim. My own belief on this point is that, if we could conceive a writer who combined in himself the anecdotal facility of Suetonius or Saint Simon, with the loaded brevity of Tacitus and the judicial irony of Gibbon, such an one might essay the task with a reasonable prospect of success though, after all, the probability is that he would be quite out of sympathy with Dumas. However that be, I console myself by reflecting that to adapt a familiar Dumas story il ya des degres, and by hoping that, in the scale of degrees, this book may not be at the very lowest. Then, there is or there was, on the 24th of July in this year the centenary of Dumas
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for * at www.forgottenbooks.org Preface IT may be to be exact, it is a somewhat presumptuous thing to write a book and call it Alexandre Dumas. There is no question here of Introducing an unknown man or discovering an unrecognized genius. Dumas is, and has been for the better part of a century, the property of all the world :there can be little new to say about one of whom so much has already been said. Remembering also, as I do, a dictum by one of our best known men of letters to the effect that the adequate biographer of Dumas neither is noris likely to be, I accept the saying at this moment with all the unfeigned humility which experience entitles me to claim. My own belief on this point is that, if we could conceive a writer who combined in himself the anecdotal facility of Suetonius or Saint Simon, with the loaded brevity of Tacitus and the judicial irony of Gibbon, such an one might essay the task with a reasonable prospect of success though, after all, the probability is that he would be quite out of sympathy with Dumas. However that be, I console myself by reflecting that to adapt a familiar Dumas story il ya des degres, and by hoping that, in the scale of degrees, this book may not be at the very lowest. Then, there is or there was, on the 24th of July in this year the centenary of Dumas
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for * at www.forgottenbooks.org

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440069786
• ISBN 13: 9781440069789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536