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Edmond About

Born

in Dieuze, France

February 14, 1828

Died

January 16, 1885

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Edmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. His book on Greece, La Grèce contemporaine (1855) was an immediate success. In Tolla (1855), About was charged with drawing too freely on an earlier Italian novel, Vittoria Savelli (1841). This aroused prejudice against him, and he was the object of numerous attacks. The Lettres d'un Bon Jeune Homme, written to the Figaro under the signature of "Valentin de Quevilly", provoked more animosities. During the next few years, he wrote novels, stories, a play (which failed), a book-pamphlet on the Roman question, many pamphlets on other subjects of the day, innumerable newspaper articles, some art criticisms, rejoinders to the attacks of his enemies, and popular manua ...more

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	Η Ελλάδα του Όθωνα by Edmond About, Αριστέα Κομνηνέλλη (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1855 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King of the Mountains 3.57 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1857 — 336 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le nez d'un notaire 3.42 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1862 — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man with the Broken Ear 3.39 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1862 — 210 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Germaine 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orient Express: De Pontoise a Estambul by Edmond About, José Jesús Fornieles Alférez (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Căsătorii pariziene by Edmond About, Bogdan Bădulescu (trad.) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1856 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A B C du travailleur by Edmond About, Institut Coppet (Editor) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1868 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Classics Illustrated 127 of 169 : The King of the Mountains 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fazilet by Edmond About, Sıtkı Lâlik (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1880	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“These are the most exquisite delights to be found in Greece, next to, or perhaps before, the pleasure of admiring the masterpieces of art—a little cool water under a genial sun.”
― Edmond About, Η Ελλάδα του Όθωνα

tags: art, greece, nature

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