The Moon of the Fourteenth Night
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Moon of the Fourteenth Night: Being the Private Life of an Unmarried Diplomat in Persia During the Revolution The public may remember that I collaborated with Eustache de Lorey in Queer Things About Persia. When he told me of the journal of the late Edouard Valmont, his colleague who was hi Teheran during the Persian Revolution, which had come into his hands, I said, "Let´s make a book of it. If I am not mistaken the public will read it with the same relish as Pierre Loti´s wonderful Madame Chrysantheme. The Journal, in truth, presents much the same effects as those, with which M. Loti achieved his triumph. We have a young French bachelor, a man of birth and official position, eager for the novelty and excitement of life in the native style, falling into a liaison with a native woman. Valmont´s notes are full of the atmosphere and incidents of this strange life. An adventure, by an unbeliever, with a Mohammedan woman in Persia had the added zest of discovery meaning almost certain death for both parties, and of being almost without a parallel, since the bare idea of it is repulsive and almost inconceivable to a Persian woman. As we are giving the Confessions (never meant to meet the public eye) of this French boy aristocrat, we have taken every advantage of my collaborateur being a Frenchman to give the English in which the book is written a French accent and atmosphere, in the endeavour to retain the naïveté with which poor Edouard Valmont wrote down the diary of his brief romance. 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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