Opis: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin - Author Unknown

Excerpt from Memoirs of Robert-Houdin: Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer

In my humble capacity of translator of Robert-Houdin's life, I may be permitted to make one or two remarks, and answer in anticipation the objections which I feel confident will be raised.

In the first place, I am perfectly well aware that this English copy of Houdin's book will strike many of my readers as even more Gallicised than the original; but I beg to assure them I have produced this impression from malice prepense. It would have been a very easy task for me to have made the book thoroughly English; but I feel, had I done so, it would have been as fiat as yesterday's champagne. The great merit of the book, to my mind, is the intense belief M. Houdin has in his mission, and though no Englishman would write of himself in such a satisfied tone, I am firmly convinced that the arch-conjuror is actuated by the same feelings which induced Vatel to fall on his sword because the fish did not arrive in time. Death before disgrace! is apparently Houdin's motto.

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Szczegóły: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin - Author Unknown

Nazwa: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330708477
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 450
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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