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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... kind : a cab or carriage raising the dust on its way to the Bois - a water - cart laying it ( there were no hydrants then ) ; a courier bear- ing royal despatches , or a mounted orderly ; the Passy omnibus , to or fro every ten or ...
... kind : a cab or carriage raising the dust on its way to the Bois - a water - cart laying it ( there were no hydrants then ) ; a courier bear- ing royal despatches , or a mounted orderly ; the Passy omnibus , to or fro every ten or ...
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... white mouse to " le grand Bonzig " -who intrusted it to Mlle . Marce- line , the head lingère , a very kind and handsome per- son , who found for it a comfortable home in an old bon- bon - box lined with blue satin , where it 15.
... white mouse to " le grand Bonzig " -who intrusted it to Mlle . Marce- line , the head lingère , a very kind and handsome per- son , who found for it a comfortable home in an old bon- bon - box lined with blue satin , where it 15.
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... kind of spontaneous humorous Crichton , to whom all things came easily - and life itself as an un- commonly good joke . During that summer term of 1847 I did not see very much of him . He was in the class below mine , and took up with ...
... kind of spontaneous humorous Crichton , to whom all things came easily - and life itself as an un- commonly good joke . During that summer term of 1847 I did not see very much of him . He was in the class below mine , and took up with ...
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... kind more whelp or kitten than monkey - ever playing the fool , in and out of season , but somehow always à propos ; and French boys love a boy for that more than anything else ; or did , in those days . Such very simple buffooneries as ...
... kind more whelp or kitten than monkey - ever playing the fool , in and out of season , but somehow always à propos ; and French boys love a boy for that more than anything else ; or did , in those days . Such very simple buffooneries as ...
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... kind that even his butts were fond of him . He would make M. Bonzig laugh in the middle of his severest penal sentences , and thus demoralize the whole school - room and set a shocking example , and be ordered à la porte of the salle d ...
... kind that even his butts were fond of him . He would make M. Bonzig laugh in the middle of his severest penal sentences , and thus demoralize the whole school - room and set a shocking example , and be ordered à la porte of the salle d ...
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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