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The inspiration for Puccini's great opera La Boh?me, Henri Murger's episodic story of the bohemians of mid-19th century Paris is a lively, eccentric and amusing narrative - it is presented here with the original 33 drawings. Less a novel and more a series of entertaining encounters,... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1851, Scenes from the Latin Quarter is Henri Murger's best-known work, and the novel upon which Puccini based his opera La Boheme. The novel draws largely on Murger's own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian attic, and the lives... Read Full Overview

Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin... Read Full Overview

"Today, as of old, every man who enters on an artistic career, without any other means of livelihood than his art itself, will be forced to walk in the paths of Bohemia."--from the Preface

The inspiration for Puccini's great opera La Boh?me, Henri Murger's episodic story of the bohemians of mid-19th century Paris is a lively, eccentric and amusing narrative - it is presented here with the original 33 drawings. Less a novel and more a series of entertaining encounters,... Read Full Overview

Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Sc nes De La Vie De Boh me

Henry Murger wrote a series of popular short stories in the late 1840s describing the poverty of the young artists of his generation in Paris, basing them on his personal experiences. These were adapted for the stage by Th odore Barri re in 1857. The play follows the fortunes... Read Full Overview

This book is a new translation of Henry Murger's influential Sc nes de la vie de boh me, first published in French in 1851.

Scenes From The Life Of Bohemia: Scenes De La View De Boheme is a novel written by Henri Murger and originally published in 1896. The book is a collection of stories that depict the lives of artists and writers living in Bohemian Paris during the mid-19th century. The stories... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This book by Henry Murger was the source of the plot used by Puccini in his opera "La Boh me."

This book by Henry Murger was the source of the plot used by Puccini in his opera "La Boh me."

This book by Henry Murger was the source of the plot used by Puccini in his opera "La Boh me".

Recueil de nouvelles et de po?mes d'Henri Murger, figure embl?matique du mouvement romantique fran?ais. ? travers des portraits saisissants, l'auteur d?peint les vies mouvement?es et souvent tragiques des habitants du Quartier Latin.

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Scenes de la vie de boheme is a rich collection that extends far beyond the confines of the tragic love affair of Mimi and Rodolphe. Taking on the role of the ordinary historian of the bohemian epic, Henry Murger offers a genuine physiology of the bohemian and gives readers a... Read Full Overview