Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint) written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Vol. 16 Do not misunderstand me. I do not know whether you call love of the heart a love of the soul; whether sentimental idealism, Platonic love, in a word, can exist on this earth; I doubt it, myself. But that other love, sensual love, which has something good, a great deal of good about it, is really terrible in this climate. The heat, the burning atmosphere which makes you feverish, the suffocating blasts of wind from the south, waves of fire from the desert which is SO near us, that oppressive Sirocco which is more destructive and withering than fire, a perpetual con agration of an entire continent, burned even to its stones by a fierce and devouring sun, inflame the blood, excite the esh, and make brutes of us. But to come to my story. I shall not dwell on the beginning of my stay in Africa. After visiting Bona, Constantine, Biskara, and Setif, I went to Bougie through the defiles Of Chabet, by an excellent road cut through a large forest, which follows the sea at a height of six hundred feet above it and leads to that wonderful bay of Bougie, which is as beautiful as that of Naples, of Ajaccio, or of Douarnenez, which are the most lovely that I know of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."