Cosmopolis: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Bourget, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144004046X ISBN 13 : 9781440040467

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A sharp drama of duty, desire, and loyalty unfolds in a cosmopolitan European city, where every choice tests character and consequence.

In a world of aristocrats, lovers, and rivals, this novel follows a cast navigating social duties, private yearnings, and public provocations. The setting blends elegance with danger, turning political intrigue into personal crossroads. The result is a vivid portrait of ambition, conscience, and the costs of passion.

This edition invites readers to watch alliances shift, loyalties bend, and fate tighten its grip as characters confront what they owe to themselves and to others.

• Meet a gallery of vivid figures whose rivalries and affections drive the plot
• Experience the tension between cosmopolitan elegance and moral reckoning
• See how personal choices ripple through families, circles, and nations
• Explore themes of duty, pride, and the price of desire in a historical context

Ideal for readers who enjoy literate historical fiction with rich character dynamics and a keen eye for social intrigue.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A lps, the romance of international life that loas begun in Italy almost binder your eyes, ivhich I have framed in that old and nobleR ome of tohich you are so ardent a lover. Certainly, the drama of passion unfolded in this book has nothing else especially Roman, and nothing teas farther from my thoughts than to trace a picture of a society so local, so traditional as that which stirs betiveen the Quirinal and the Vatican. Tlie drama is not even I talian, for it could not, toith any degree of probability, develop itself in Venice or in Florence. Nice would have suited equally well, andS t. Moritz, not to mention Paris and London in fact, the various cities which are, as it were, quarters scattered throughout Europe, of that Jhating Cosmopolis baptized by Beyle :V eng-o adesso da Cosmopoli. It is tJ ie contrast between the sometvhat incoherent ways and doings of the wanderers of high life, and tJ ie character of perennial existence stamped everyloliere in the great city of the Ccesars and the Popes, that led me to choose this spot, lohere tJ ie smallest corners speak of a 2)ast of centuries, for evoking in it some representatives of thai mode of life, ivhich is the most modern, and also the most arbitrary and most momentary. Fow, ivho knoiv better than anyone the odd world of the Cosmopolites, ivill understand why I have confined myself here to depicting a mere framefd, as I would, had occasion alloived, have told only an episode.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144004046X
• ISBN 13: 9781440040467
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 355
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