Category: Humour

The Bibliomaniac

Nodier, Charles, 1780-1844; Vallery-Radot, René, 1853-1933 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Leloir, Maurice, 1853-1940 [Illustrator]; Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 7,606 words

“Good, amiable Nodier,” are the words by which the world, apart from scholars, characterizes Charles Nodier. He is portrayed with a flowered vest, and a frock-coat with great lapels, finished by one of those collars which, by an easy play upon words, are called _les cols (l’éc...

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1. Part 1

“Good, amiable Nodier,” are the words by which the world, apart from scholars, characterizes Charles Nodier. He is portrayed with a flowered vest, and a frock-coat with great la...

2. Part 2

publisher’s office, or the bookseller, into the ten-cent box. Authors of every kind and sort, philosophers, historians, poets, novelists, who could not be wafted to immortality...