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Dominique
This new English translation of Dominique takes the reader back to provincial France in the mid-19th century.
While out hunting one day in the village of Villeneuve, the unnamed narrator makes the acquaintance of Dominique de Bray, a well-respected man in his community. The two men forge a friendship and Dominique welcomes his new friend into his happy household. After tragedy strikes one of Dominique's closest friends, Olivier d'Orsel, Dominique spends a rainy afternoon telling his new friend the melancholy story of his tormented life and his impossible love for Madeleine, Olivier's cousin.
Published in 1863, Dominique was the only novel that Eugène Fromentin, best known for his work as a painter depicting life in French Algeria, ever wrote. In this "simple and none too romantic story," Fromentin retraces the life of a man who is loved by all as a respected citizen in his village and as a devoted father, but who cannot help but relive his tortured past.
While out hunting one day in the village of Villeneuve, the unnamed narrator makes the acquaintance of Dominique de Bray, a well-respected man in his community. The two men forge a friendship and Dominique welcomes his new friend into his happy household. After tragedy strikes one of Dominique's closest friends, Olivier d'Orsel, Dominique spends a rainy afternoon telling his new friend the melancholy story of his tormented life and his impossible love for Madeleine, Olivier's cousin.
Published in 1863, Dominique was the only novel that Eugène Fromentin, best known for his work as a painter depicting life in French Algeria, ever wrote. In this "simple and none too romantic story," Fromentin retraces the life of a man who is loved by all as a respected citizen in his village and as a devoted father, but who cannot help but relive his tortured past.
271 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 17, 2015
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Cecilee Linke
7 books5 followersI have been writing stories and poems since I was a little girl. I was encouraged by my third-grade teacher Mrs. Collins to continue writing, so I have taken her advice to heart!
I like to write about people and relationships, so my usual genres are young adult and historical fiction. My first novel is a young adult story about twin sisters, called Elodie and Heloise. The characters in the book were based on some characters that I created in The Sims 3.
My second novel is the first in a historical fiction set in the ghost town of Wash Woods, Virginia, a long-forgotten fishing village in what is now False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach. The first novel is being released in November 2013, with the second novel being released in spring 2014 and the third book to follow in summer/fall 2014.
I like to write about people and relationships, so my usual genres are young adult and historical fiction. My first novel is a young adult story about twin sisters, called Elodie and Heloise. The characters in the book were based on some characters that I created in The Sims 3.
My second novel is the first in a historical fiction set in the ghost town of Wash Woods, Virginia, a long-forgotten fishing village in what is now False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach. The first novel is being released in November 2013, with the second novel being released in spring 2014 and the third book to follow in summer/fall 2014.
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