Alphonse de Lamartine
Raphael: Or Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books March 17, 2018)
Excerpt from Raphael: Or Pages of the Book of Life at TwentyIT is all very well for Lamartine to explain, in his original prologue, that the touching, fascinating and pa thetic story of Raphael was the experience of another man. It is well known that these feeling pages are but trans scripts of an episode of his own heart-history. That the tale is one of almost feminine sentimentality is due, in some measure, perhaps, to the fact that, during his earliest and most impressionable years, Lamartine was educa ted by his mother and was greatly influenced by her ar dent and poetical character. Who shall say how much de pends ou one's environment during these tender years of childhood, and how often has it not been proved that the child is father to the man? The marvel of it is that a man so exquisitely sensitive, of such extraordinary delicacy of feeling, should have been able, in later years, to stand the storm and stress of political life and the grave responsi bilities of statesmanship.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.
- ISBN
- 0364781556 / 9780364781555
- Pages
- 282
- Weight
- 19.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.7 in.
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