Iceland Fisherman
Pierre Loti
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 20, 2018)
Excerpt from Iceland FishermanWhich remain invariable, a yearning passion for beauty, and a limpid purity of style. He is as brilliant and realistic an impressionist as any of his countrymen; but he is more than all a senti mentalist, and never describes a scene without the accompanying emotion which unites it to his soul and ours. The poet's passion for beauty is his own; but his expression of it is essentially Gallic, as it is never divested of the personal rela tion to himself. An abstract rapture over the frozen beauties of a Greek vase could never have arisen from the heart of this fascinating egotist. Like all poets, his nature is as deep as a well and as reflective as the mirror of its surface.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.