Pierre Loti was the pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923), a French naval officer and author, known for his exotic novels and stories. Born into a Protestant family in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, he entered the naval school in Brest at 17 and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906 and in 1910 he went on the reserve list. His literary career began after fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel some passages from his diary concerning his ...
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Pierre Loti was the pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923), a French naval officer and author, known for his exotic novels and stories. Born into a Protestant family in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, he entered the naval school in Brest at 17 and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906 and in 1910 he went on the reserve list. His literary career began after fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel some passages from his diary concerning his curious experiences in Constantinople. The result was the anonymously published Aziyade (1879), part romance, part autobiography, in what was to become his signature style. In 1880 he published Rarahu, later reprinted as Le Mariage de Loti, a Polynesian idyl based on the two months he had spent in Tahiti in 1872 where he had "gone native". In 1882 he issued a collection of shorter pieces - three stories and a travel essay - entitled Fleurs d'ennui, and the following year achieved wider public recognition with his critically acclaimed Mon Frere Yves, a novel describing the life of a French naval officer. His 1886 novel of life among Breton fisherfolk, Pecheur d'Islande (An Iceland Fisherman), has been described as the finest of all his writing, adapting some of the Impressionist techniques of contemporary painters like Monet into prose, and it is a classic of French literature. Madame Chrysantheme, a novel of Japanese manners and a precursor to Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon, combining both narrative and travelogue, appeared in 1887. His fictionalized account of his childhood, Le Roman d'un enfant (1890), greatly influenced Marcel Proust, and in 1891 Loti was elected to the Academie francaise. He produced many more books based around his travels to such locations as Morocco, the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Loti died in Hendaye and was interred on the island of Oleron with a state funeral. Ramuntcho (1897) is a love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France and is one of Loti's most popular stories, with four film adaptations between 1919-59. Loti conceived the idea for the book after taking command of the gunboat Javelot at Hendaye in 1891, watching the French-Spanish border at the mouth of the Bidassoa, an area where smuggling was particularly prevalent. Reprinted from the English translation by Henri Pene du Bois.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. (no date) 247 pp. Text in French. The pages are slightly tanned. Some scuffing to the corners of the covers The binding is tight and and square, and the text is clean.
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Good. No DJ. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Edition not stated. No indication of later printings in this edition, 1917 copyright & publication date. Grey cloth with pictorial stamping of mountain range on front board. Front board with moderate soiling, spotting. Rear board with diagonal red line of discoloration (about 2" long) Spine a bit age darkened, slight lean; head and heel gently bumped. Binding sound. Text block darkened from age. Bookplate on front paste down, otherwise contents unmarked. Light foxing to first few pages.
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Fair. Heavy wear, covers almost entirely chipped away, title page torn. The rest is clean, a good copy for research or rebinding. Over 500, 000 Internet Orders FIlled.
Add this copy of Ramuntcho to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by The Classic Past rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gallatin, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1926 by D C Heath & Co..
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No dust jacket. Slight fraying on couple edges of cover. Writing inside cover. Penciled notes taken on some pages. Writing in pencil inside back cover. Part of the Heath's Modern Language Series of 1926. Abridged and edited with notes and vocabulary.
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