Project Gutenberg 2007-03-02 Public domain in the USA. 76 About, Edmond 1828 1885 About, Edmond François Valentin Abu, Edmond About, E. (Edmond) Avout, Edmondos Ampou, Edmondos About, Edmond Francois Valentin Holt, Henry 1840 1926 L'homme à l'oreille cassée. English The man with the broken ear Produced by V. L. Simpson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Produced by V. L. Simpson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Man with the Broken Ear" by Edmond About is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around Leon Renault, a young engineer who, after having made a fortune in the Ural mines, returns home to Fontainebleau to reunite with his family and his childhood sweetheart, Clementine. As Leon navigates the joys of familial reunion and the complexities of love, he becomes entangled in the unusual fate of a desiccated colonel—an experiment in reanimation led by the eccentric Professor Meiser. At the start of the narrative, we are introduced to Leon as he arrives home amidst much excitement and warmth from his parents and friends. He is eager to see Clementine, his betrothed, whose beauty and charm are vividly described. However, their happy reunion is interrupted by the revelation of a mummy that Leon has brought back from his travels—the preserved body of Colonel Fougas. As Leon shares humorous yet unsettling details about the colonel, it sparks Clementine's deep curiosity and compassion toward this bizarre figure, leading her to express strangely intense feelings for him. This peculiar attachment adds a layer of complexity to Leon and Clementine's budding relationship, reflecting on themes of love, the intersections of science and morality, and the human fascination with life and death. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PQ Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 405170 404991 2024-09-09T06:34:24.939965 2023-09-09T09:09:27.726574 text/html text/html 405776 2021-01-01T19:46:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 154737 2021-01-01T19:46:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 215232 2024-09-09T06:34:32.146466 application/epub+zip 218928 2024-09-09T06:34:26.683977 application/epub+zip 218928 2024-09-09T06:34:25.648948 application/epub+zip 399037 2024-09-09T06:34:36.545398 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 360842 2024-09-09T06:34:31.352461 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 361293 2022-09-10T03:38:03.903630 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 367381 367304 2024-09-09T06:34:24.029958 2023-09-09T09:09:26.737570 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 367125 2021-01-01T19:46:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 145686 2021-01-01T19:46:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 367123 2021-01-01T19:46:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 145565 2021-01-01T19:46:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 11012306 2007-03-02T09:59:16 application/octet-stream application/zip 22221 2024-09-09T06:34:36.693393 application/rdf+xml 13357 2024-09-09T06:34:26.014953 image/jpeg 3713 2024-09-09T06:34:25.831982 image/jpeg 202181 2024-09-09T06:34:24.973985 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia