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Title: Les mille et un fantômes

Note: Reading ease score: 78.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Carlo Traverso, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously
made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)

Summary: "Les mille et un fantômes" by Alexandre Dumas is a collection of fantastical tales written in the early 19th century. The book reflects on themes of loss, nostalgia, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing society, primarily through a series of ghostly narratives. Dumas himself serves as a narrator, blending personal reflection with interwoven stories of the past. The opening of the narrative sets the stage for an exploration of bygone elegance and societal norms, as Dumas muses on the loss of courtoisie in contemporary society. He addresses a friend, teasingly responding to a request for lighter tales amidst serious political undertones of the time. This frame introduces a somber tone as he openly acknowledges that his stories may not be cheerful, instead unfolding tales drawn from both personal memories and the ghostly remnants of a society that has faded. He vividly evokes imagery of the past while alluding to a specific encounter in Fontenay-aux-Roses, establishing a tension between the familiar and the spectral as he prepares the reader for the 'ghost stories' to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

EBook No.: 15208

Published: Feb 28, 2005

Downloads: 165

Language: French

Subject: Supernatural -- Fiction

Subject: Ghost stories

Subject: Paranormal fiction

Subject: Death -- Fiction

Subject: Capital punishment -- Fiction

Subject: Spirits -- Fiction

LoCC: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

This edition has images.

Title: Les mille et un fantômes

Note: Reading ease score: 78.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Carlo Traverso, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously
made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)

Summary: "Les mille et un fantômes" by Alexandre Dumas is a collection of fantastical tales written in the early 19th century. The book reflects on themes of loss, nostalgia, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing society, primarily through a series of ghostly narratives. Dumas himself serves as a narrator, blending personal reflection with interwoven stories of the past. The opening of the narrative sets the stage for an exploration of bygone elegance and societal norms, as Dumas muses on the loss of courtoisie in contemporary society. He addresses a friend, teasingly responding to a request for lighter tales amidst serious political undertones of the time. This frame introduces a somber tone as he openly acknowledges that his stories may not be cheerful, instead unfolding tales drawn from both personal memories and the ghostly remnants of a society that has faded. He vividly evokes imagery of the past while alluding to a specific encounter in Fontenay-aux-Roses, establishing a tension between the familiar and the spectral as he prepares the reader for the 'ghost stories' to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

EBook No.: 15208

Published: Feb 28, 2005

Downloads: 165

Language: French

Subject: Supernatural -- Fiction

Subject: Ghost stories

Subject: Paranormal fiction

Subject: Death -- Fiction

Subject: Capital punishment -- Fiction

Subject: Spirits -- Fiction

LoCC: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.