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The Daughters of Fire

The Daughters of Fire

Jones, Adele
Turner, Liahona
de Nerval, Gérard

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN13: 9798388787071
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 27 2023
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Daughters of Fire is a collection of stories by the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval, published in 1854, a year before his tragic death. The centerpiece of the collection is Sylvie, a lyrical novella which Andrew Lang described as one of the little masterpieces of the world. It is the prototype for Proust's Remembrance of Things Past: it is a nostalgic view of the narrator's childhood viewed through the lens of memory and impression. The Daughters of Fire also includes Angélique, the charming story of the writer's search for an elusive book and the elopement of a 17th century lady and The Chimeras, a collection of sonnets which was influential for the French symbolists, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats. Other stories in the collection are Jemmy, Octavie, Isis, Émilie, Corilla, and the essay Songs and Legends of Valois. This is the only complete English translation of this collection; it conveys the charm and spirit of Nerval's writings to an Anglophone audience.

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