He had enormous whiskers and wore a wig, and he was dressed in tight violet-coloured trousers which emphasised his corpulence, a dark-green coat with full tails, a lilac waistcoat, with a frilled shirt and a great flowing cravat. Looking about him, he presently noticed a very fat little man who was talking with animation to a small group of his fellow-guests. One of the persons whose acquaintance he thus made took him to see Madame Ancelot, wife of a well-known dramatist, who received her friends on Tuesday evenings. In 1826 a virtuous young Englishman, but of literary inclinations, stayed for a while in Paris on his way to Italy, and presented the letters of introduction he had brought with him.
M Why the British Are Hated in Asia (1954) M Stendhal and Le Rouge et le Noir (1954) M The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian (1898)
M Of Human Bondage with a Digression on the Art of Fiction (1946) M Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice (1954) M Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights (1954) M Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov (1954)
M Charles Dickens and David Copperfiled (1954)
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