When Pierre Loti--traveler, acrobat, naval officer, celebrated writer--died in 1923, he was given a state funeral, the only French writer to have received such an honor besides Victor Hugo. This spellbinding storyteller--bohemian, exotic and fiercely romantic--spent his life escaping the constraints of bourgeois France, and in so doing redefined his age. He traveled the South Seas, Asia and the Middle East (his great obsession), he loved with intense passion and freedom, and he wrote some of the most exquisite novels and travel books of his time. As adored as he was scorned by French society, Loti led the life that most romantics only dared write about.
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"An exceptionally good biography of an exceptionally interesting man."--Noel Perrin, Washington Post
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Lesley Blanch, 1904-2007, was at heart a nomad. She travelled extensively and adventurously throughout her extraordinary life although her great passion was always for the Middle East and Russia. Married to the French diplomat and writer, Romain Gary, for 18 years, Blanch became arts features editor of Vogue in the thirties and turned to writing and journalism soon after. She was Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of The Sabres of Paradise, Pierre Loti (both Tauris Parke Paperbacks) and the bestselling The Wilder Shores of Love among many others. At the time of her death she was writing her autobiography, the sequel to her acclaimed Journey Into the Mind’s Eye. An inspiration to generations of writers, readers and travellers, Lesley Blanch was, in the words of Philip Mansel, "not a school, a trend, or a fashion, but a true original."
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He was a provincial. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chères vieilles, oriental life, floating bed, unpublished journals, bien aimée, naval life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pierre Loti, Madame Adam, Aunt Claire, Sarah Bernhardt, Great-aunt Berthe, Rue Saint-Pierre, Bakhar Etchea, Julien Viaud, Ottoman Empire, Théodore Viaud, Abeddin Effendi, Arik Ussim Effendi, Madame Viaud, Ministère de la Marine, Far East, Queen Pomaré, Carmen Sylva, Joseph Bernard, Madame Léra, Nadine Viaud, Préfecture de la Marine, Anatole France, French Government, Madame Barthou, Madame Chrysanthème New!
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He was a provincial. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chères vieilles, oriental life, floating bed, unpublished journals, bien aimée, naval life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pierre Loti, Madame Adam, Aunt Claire, Sarah Bernhardt, Great-aunt Berthe, Rue Saint-Pierre, Bakhar Etchea, Julien Viaud, Ottoman Empire, Théodore Viaud, Abeddin Effendi, Arik Ussim Effendi, Madame Viaud, Ministère de la Marine, Far East, Queen Pomaré, Carmen Sylva, Joseph Bernard, Madame Léra, Nadine Viaud, Préfecture de la Marine, Anatole France, French Government, Madame Barthou, Madame Chrysanthème New!
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- The Wilder Shores of Love: The Exotic True-Life Stories of Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby, and Isabelle Eberhardt by Lesley Blanch in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Revised Edition by Lesley Blanch in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Vers Ispahan (Exeter French Texts) (French Edition) by Pierre Loti on page 250, and page 257
- Wilder Shores by Lesley Blanch in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by T.S. Eliot on page 33
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