Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget
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Paul Bourget opens Cosmopolis with talkers in Rome, where a man who has studied many languages holds forth at a street corner like the hero of a Russian novel. Montfanon listens with an impenetrable air, a man awaiting the end in religious solitude, for whom nothing gives greater pleasure than the discussion of ideas. He feels with extreme ardor, and is almost pained by the partly ironical dilettanteism of Dorsenne.
Author and monk share common ground, yet their tempers differ, one enthusiastic and one detached. The volume sets up Bourget's international Rome, where French, English, American, and Italian lives cross in drawing rooms and churches. Readers who like Bourget's psychological novels will find a first volume of ideas, faith, and cosmopolitan society.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 159 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |