Honore de Balzac, Ernest Dowson

A Passion in the Desert

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Oct. 9, 2014)
"The whole show is dreadful," she cried coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin. She had just been looking at that daring speculator "working with his hyena,"—to speak in the style of the programme. "By what means," she continued, "can he have tamed these animals to such a point as to be certain of their affection for——" "What seems to you a problem," said I, interrupting, "is really quite natural." "Oh!" she cried, letting an incredulous smile wander over her lips. "You think that beasts are wholly without passions?" I asked her. "Quite the reverse; we can communicate to them all the vices arising in our own state of civilization." She looked at me with an air of astonishment.
ISBN
150241547X / 9781502415479
Pages
28
Weight
3.2 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.1 in.