The Martian: A NovelHarper & brothers, 1897 - 477 páginas The narrator and main character, Barty Josselin, attempts suicide after he loses his sight in one eye, prompting the appearance of Martia, the Martian, with whom he now shares his body. Du Maurier also introduces the concept of automatic writing in this novel: while Josselin sleeps, Martia writes and Josselin becomes a world-famous writer. |
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... immense wealth and immense good - nature ; and several very rich Jews , who were neither very clever nor very stupid , but , as a rule , rather popular . Then we had a few of humble station - the son of the woman who washed for us ...
... immense wealth and immense good - nature ; and several very rich Jews , who were neither very clever nor very stupid , but , as a rule , rather popular . Then we had a few of humble station - the son of the woman who washed for us ...
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... immense whiskers , which Barty openly envied , but could not em- ulate - and the mustache with which he would have been quite decently endowed in time was not permitted in an infantry regiment . To return to the Pension Brossard , and ...
... immense whiskers , which Barty openly envied , but could not em- ulate - and the mustache with which he would have been quite decently endowed in time was not permitted in an infantry regiment . To return to the Pension Brossard , and ...
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... immense ; and so was the mid- day meal - and of a succulency ! ... An old wolf - hound always lay by the huge log fire ; often with two or three fidgety cats fighting for the soft places on him and making him growl ; five or six other ...
... immense ; and so was the mid- day meal - and of a succulency ! ... An old wolf - hound always lay by the huge log fire ; often with two or three fidgety cats fighting for the soft places on him and making him growl ; five or six other ...
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... immense beard , that would have been white if he hadn't been a charcoal- burner , kissed Barty on both cheeks , and gave him a huge bag full of some kind of forest berry that is good to eat ; also a young cuckoo ( which Barty restored ...
... immense beard , that would have been white if he hadn't been a charcoal- burner , kissed Barty on both cheeks , and gave him a huge bag full of some kind of forest berry that is good to eat ; also a young cuckoo ( which Barty restored ...
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... immense dressing - room where there were half a dozen towel - horses with about thirty pairs of newly ironed trousers on them instead of towels , and quite thirty pairs of shiny boots on trees were ranged along the wall . James , an ...
... immense dressing - room where there were half a dozen towel - horses with about thirty pairs of newly ironed trousers on them instead of towels , and quite thirty pairs of shiny boots on trees were ranged along the wall . James , an ...
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admiration Antwerp aunt Barge Yard Barty Josselin Barty's beautiful better bien Blankenberghe Bois de Boulogne Bonzig boys Brossard Brussels Bussy-Rabutin c'est called charming cher cœur daughter dear Déjanire delightful dined divine Julia Dumollard Düsseldorf English eyes face famous father feel felt fond France French genial girl handsome happy heart hour immense kind knew Lady Caroline Laferté laugh le Pactole Leah Leah Gibson Leah's lived looked Lord Archibald m'sieur Madame married Marsfield Martia Maurice Mechelen Mérovée Monsieur morning mother never night Noiret once Paris Père play poor pretty Rapaud remember retina Riffrath Rohan round sang Sardonyx says Barty Scatcherd seemed sing sister sleep smoke song soon Southampton Row splendid talk tall Tavistock Square tell things thought told took voice walked Whitby wife woman young