Paris Herself Again in 1878-9 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Paris Herself Again in 1878-9 A Considerable edition of Paris Herself Again having been exhausted within three weeks, I may be permitted to address a few words of thanks to the public for their prompt encouragement of a work, the letterpress of which I tried to make as entertaining as I could; while my publishers, on their part, have spared no efforts to render the book as pictorially attractive as possible. Thus the objects which we mutually proposed to ourselves have been secured "all round." The public have evidently been pleased; else they would not have bought up one edition of Paris Herself Again, and called for another. My booksellers, I take it, have equal reason to be complacent; since, if the second edition be swiftly disposed of, they will be emboldened to issue a third, and so on, till they get into the "stride" of M. Emile Zola, who by this time, I should say, is in his fifty-fifth reprint of the fascinating and polished Assommoir; thus I am satisfied to find that other people are not displeased with my poor performance. I say that it is poor - lamentably poor; for, my eight hundred pages or so, nevertheless, I feel (audaciously paraphrasing the illustrious philosopher) that I have only been picking up pebbles on the sea-shore, while the great ocean of Paris lay all undiscovered before me. I should like, had I the time and the means, to chronicle the hours of the day and night in the vivacious capital, after the manner which I pursued more than twenty years ago, in a book called Twice Round the Clock. I should like to translate Dulaure; to bring Mercier´s Tableau de Paris down to the present day, or in a series of semi-historical semi-social essays, to compare the Paris of Madame de Sevigne and Tallemant des Reaux with the Paris of Honore de Balzac and Eugene Sue. 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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