THE NOVEL OF A POOR YOUNG MAN Octave FEULLETT (Date unknown)

THE NOVEL OF A POOR YOUNG MAN Octave FEUILLET (No date) - 354 pages - Size 18X12 - Octave FEUILLET was a French novelist and playwright. He is considered a writer situated between the romantics and the realists. His reputation comes from his way of describing life, both elegant and lucid, his representation of female characters, his analyses of the psychology and feelings of his characters, as well as the style of his prose, excellent, discreet but witty. The Novel of a Poor Young Man appeared in 1858, and was a great popular success. The novel of a poor young man begins like this: Paris 185... Here is the second evening that I spend in this miserable room looking with a dull eye at my empty hearth, stupidly listening to the murmurs and monotonous rumblings of the street, and feeling, in the midst of this great city; more alone, more abandoned and closer to despair than the shipwrecked man shivering in the middle of the Ocean on his broken board. That's enough cowardice! I want to face my destiny to remove its ghostly air.....