The Downfall: (La Débâcle) a Story of the Horrors of WarChatto & Windus, 1914 - 534 páginas |
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The Downfall (La Debacle) a Story of the Horrors of War; - War College Series Emile Zola Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Downfall: (La Debacle) a Story of the Horrors of War - War College Series Emile Zola Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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aide-de-camp already ambulance amid arms artillery batteries battle battle of Sedan Bazeilles began blood Bouroche bread bullets Cabasse camp Captain Beaudoin carried chassepot Chasseurs d'Afrique Chouteau cloth colonel colours comrades corpses Crown 8vo Delaherche Demy 8vo Donchery Douay EDITION Emperor everything exclaimed eyes face Fcap fear fell fellow felt fighting fire Fouchard France Francs-tireurs French gallop German gilt ground guns hand head heart Henriette Honoré horses illustrated boards Jean's Lapoulle legs lieutenant longer looked Loubet lying Marshal MacMahon Maurice's Meuse Monthois morning Mulhausen night Novels o'clock once Pache Paris passed post 8vo Prosper Prussians Raucourt regiment remained Remilly Rheims road Rochas Sambuc seemed seen Seventh Corps shells shouted sight Silvine soldiers suddenly terrible thereupon thought troops turned village Vineuil voice Vouziers waiting Weiss whilst window wood wounded yonder Zouaves
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Página 5 - The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names In Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories, and Poems.
Página 26 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Página x - My novels have always been written with a higher aim than merely to amuse. I have so high an opinion of the novel as a means of expression...
Página xi - Debacle, in the form of a very precise and accurate relation of a series of historical facts — in other words, in the form of a realistic historical novel — is a document on the psychology of France in 1870. This will explain the enormous number of characters which figure in the book. Each character represents one etat d'ame psychologique of the France of the day. If my work be well done, the reader will be able to understand what was in men's minds and what was the bent of men's minds — what...
Página 298 - MY BROTHER, — Not having been able to die in the midst of my troops, there is nothing left me but to render my sword into the hands of your Majesty.
Página xi - contains, or may be made to contain, everything; and it is because that is my creed that I am a novelist. I have, to my thinking, certain contributions to make to the thought of the world on certain subjects, and I have chosen the novel as the best way of communicating these contributions to the world.
Página x - ... the banquet of letters. It was then the idle pastime of the hour, and sat low down between the fable and the idyll. To-day it contains, or may be made to contain, everything ; and it is because that is my creed that I am a novelist.
Página vii - Immense quantity of material, halting in farmhouses and peasants' cottages, and taking copious notes. Then came Sedan, and after a careful study of the place and the people, I saw that my novel must deal largely, for the full comprehension of my story, not only with the locality, but with the people of the town. This gave me the bourgeois of Sedan, who play an important part in my tale.
Página vii - So, with my rough draft in my pocket, and my head teeming with the shadows of my marionettes, and of the things that they were to do and to explain, I set off for Rheims and went carefully over the whole ground, driving from Rheims to Sedan, and following foot by foot the road by which the Seventh Corps — already then decided upon as the milieu in wMrh my novel was to develop — marched to their disaster. During that drive I picked up an Immense quantity of material, halting in farmhouses and...
Página viii - Each new place that it became necessary to describe supplied its type, its characters. So, on my return to Paris, I was in an immense workshop or yard surrounded with huge mountains of hewn stones, mortar, and bricks, and all that remained then to do was to build the best structure that I could. . . . But before that, the architect's plan was necessary, and that I next carefully evolved. My plan of work is most rigorous. Each chapter is worked out in advance, but it is only as I am writing that the...