Author: comte François Xavier de MaistrePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The leper of the city of Aosta, tr. by H. Attwell. The orig. Fr. is appended
Author: comte François Xavier de MaistrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Valley of Aosta
Author: Felice Giovanni FerreroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The New Monthly Magazine
Author: New Monthly Belle Assemblée
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine
Author: The Leper of the City of Aosta
Author: Xavier de MaistreVoyage Around My Room
Author: Xavier de MaistrePublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222349
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room. Admired by Nietzsche and Machado de Assis, Ossian and Susan Sontag, this classic book proves that sitting on the living-room sofa can be as fascinating as crossing the Alps or paddling up the Amazon. In addition to the Voyage and Expedition, this edition also includes the dialogue “The Leper of the City of Aosta,” a preface by Xavier’s better-known older brother (the royalist philosopher Joseph de Maistre), and an introduction by Richard Howard.
Author: Charles Force Deems
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