Tales Before Supper From Theophile Gautier And Prosper Merimee

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Excerpt from Tales Before Supper From Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee: Told in English by Myndart Verelst A Short time ago, in the green room of the Paris Opera, an old gentleman in an ill-fitting coat announced to whomsoever would listen that the most beautiful thing in the world was a beautiful edition of Gautier. He looked boldly about as though hoping for a contradiction or the chance of an argument, but the remark passed unchallenged, and nodding sagaciously to himself he went back to the stalls. The old gentleman perhaps was wrong. There are, doubtless, many things in the world more beautiful than that which pleasured his book-lover fancy, but in literature at least the number is small. Theophile Gautier is the Delacroix of prose. It is related of Anne Boleyn that one of her eyes was green and the other black. Gautier's were even more chromatic; they received and reflected with the exactitude of a prism every hue from argent to basaltic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."