Moral Tales

by Jules Laforgue

Book Overview

When Jules Laforgue's Moralit?s l?gendaires was published in 1887 a few months after his death at the age of twenty-seven, it was hailed as a masterpiece. In the words of Remy de Gourmont, it gave "the sensation (specially rare) that we have never read anything like it: the grape with all its velvet hues in the morning light, but with curious reflections and an air as if the seeds within had become frozen by a breath of ironic wind come from some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811209431
• ISBN13: 9780811209434
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"