Project Gutenberg 2007-11-09 Public domain in the USA. 120 Loti, Pierre 1850 1923 Viaud, Julien Viaud, Louis Marie Julien Le roman d'un enfant Reading ease score: 66.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at DP Europe (http://dp.rastko.net) "Le roman d'un enfant" by Pierre Loti is a semi-autobiographical novel written in the late 19th century. The book explores the author’s early childhood experiences and memories, reflecting on the innocence and simplicity of childhood, as well as the beginnings of emotional complexity. The narrative likely follows Loti’s character as he navigates the world through a child’s perspective, blending both wonder and the nascent feelings of anxiety and nostalgia. The opening of the novel sets a contemplative tone as the narrator grapples with the nature of memory and early impressions. He expresses a desire to articulate the fleeting moments that shaped his infancy while acknowledging their hazy origins. The first memories described include instances of joyful discovery, such as learning to jump and run, mingled with feelings of fear and anxiety regarding the unknown—symbolized by the flickering flames of a fire or the darkness of shadowy corners in his family home. As he recalls these vivid sensory experiences, the narrator's reflections reveal not only the tenderness of childhood but also its underlying complexities, foreshadowing the deeper themes of loss and nostalgia that Loti aims to capture throughout the novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Children -- Fiction French fiction PQ Text FR Littérature Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 356659 356523 2025-02-10T03:35:53.272302 2023-09-10T10:52:57.353210 text/html text/html 406989 2007-11-09T08:47:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 136894 2007-11-09T08:47:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 197510 2025-02-10T03:36:00.146284 application/epub+zip 202080 2025-02-10T03:35:55.368331 application/epub+zip 202080 2025-02-10T03:35:54.069324 application/epub+zip 386654 2025-02-10T03:36:03.866227 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 368482 2025-02-10T03:35:59.349296 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 345209 2022-09-11T05:26:56.586459 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 337833 2025-02-10T03:35:52.578305 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 337749 2007-11-09T08:47:38 text/plain; charset=utf-8 128680 2007-11-09T08:47:54 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 328916 2007-11-09T08:47:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 127284 2007-11-09T08:47:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21861 2025-02-10T03:36:03.996230 application/rdf+xml 13622 2025-02-10T03:35:54.632308 image/jpeg 3558 2025-02-10T03:35:54.351290 image/jpeg 193820 2025-02-10T03:35:53.307283 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