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The Wayward Head and Heart
Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
出版
Oxford University Press
, 1963
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-4lcAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"The author presents a young boy learning to navigate through the rigid aristocratic society of the day, and he encounters two older, more experienced socialites who give him differing opinions of cultural evolution. Monsieur de Meilcour narrates his past, looking back to his debut, at the age of seventeen, into aristocratic society. Since many decades have passed between the time in which these events took place and the moment in which Meilcour narrates them, he sets the scene for his readers: “Manners have changed so prodigiously since then that I would not be surprised if my story were treated as a fable today. It is hard for us to believe that the vices and virtues that are no longer under our eyes ever existed: however, everything I write is real and I do not exaggerate.” Crébillon’s novel is essentially a moral tale."--Goodreads