1902. From the French Classical Romances. Translated from the French with a critical introduction by his Excellency M. Jules Cambon Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to the United States. A frontispiece and numerous other portraits with descriptive notes by Octave Uzanne. After joining the French Navy, Loti (pen name of Louis Julien Marie Viaud) saw the world from shipboard. He spent long months among the palm groves of the South Seas; he visited the scorching coast of Senegal and the seas of Iceland. A prolific writer, Loti used every strange and exotic scene as a background for his romance novels. The book begins: There they were, five huge, square-built seamen, drinking away together in the dismal cabin, which reeked of fish-pickle and bilge-water. The overhead beams came down too low for their tall statures, and rounded off at one end so as to resemble a gull's breast, seen from within. The whole rolled gently with a monotonous wail, inclining one slowly to drowsiness. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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THERE they were, five huge, square-built seamen, drinking away together in the dismal cabin, which reeked of fish-pickle and bilge-water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Granny Moan, Mademoiselle Gaud, Pierre Loti, Granny Yvonne, Monsieur Yann, Captain Guermeur, Star of the Sea New!
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THERE they were, five huge, square-built seamen, drinking away together in the dismal cabin, which reeked of fish-pickle and bilge-water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Granny Moan, Mademoiselle Gaud, Pierre Loti, Granny Yvonne, Monsieur Yann, Captain Guermeur, Star of the Sea New!
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- Iceland Fisherman (Pierre Loti Library) by Loti in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
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- Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St. Pierre in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Art of Narration by Mary Ellen Chase on page 329, and page 379
- Pity in Fin-de-Siècle French Culture: Liberté, Egalité, Pitié by Gonzalo J. Sanchez on page 258
- Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art by Debora Silverman in Back Matter
- Beacon Lights of Literature Book Four Part Two by Rudolph W. Chamberlain on page 401
- A Study of Prose Fiction by Bliss Perry on page 154
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