La Chartreuse De Parme, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from La Chartreuse De Parme, Vol. 1 of 3The literary career of Henri Boyle, who wrote under the pseudonym of De Stendhal, deserves to be commemorated, if only as a curious illustration of the caprice of eriti cism, or it may be cited in proof of the occasional readiness of contemporaries to forestall the judgment of posterity, when there is no longer a living and sentient object for their jealousy. His habits were simple, his tastes were of a nature to be easily and cheaply gratified, and his pecuni ary wants were consequently of the most modest description. He would have been content, he tells us, to rub on with four thousand francs a year at Paris, he would have thought himself rich with six thousandand in an autobiographical sketch he says, The only thing I see clearly is that for twenty years my idéal has been to live at Paris in a fourth story, writing a drama or a novel. This ideal was never realized, because the booksellers and theatrical man agers would not, or could not, bid high enough for dramas or novels from his pen, and he was eventually compelled to accept the consulship of Civita Vecchia, where the closing period of his life was shortened by the diseases of the climate, as well as embittered by disappointment and ennui.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.