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A. B. C. of the Worker

出版	Independently Published, 2018-05-20
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	19829488769781982948870
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Vs_YtwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Edmond François Valentin About, born February 14, 1828 in Dieuze (Moselle) and died January 16, 1885 in Paris, is a writer, journalist and critic of French art, member of the French Academy.Edmond About is also a comic author as he knows how to handle satire. He knows celebrity with his lively, clear and concise style of novels, and his novels that evoke imaginary situations, often inspired by advances in science. Marriages of Paris (1856), The King of the Mountains (1857), The Man with the Broken Ear (1862) or The Marriages of Province (1868) are all publishing successes.Four or five years ago, the hazards of life put me in correspondence with a group of Parisian workers. They were little more than seventy, but each one represented a trade, and one guessed behind them an army of comrades. I did not see a single face to face: they wrote to me, I answered them a long enough letter which ran the workshops, then one of them, which seemed to exert a certain authority by its righteousness and its lights , a proposal that can be summarized as follows:"Do you want to bond with us a strong and lasting friendship? Give us a service that neither our speakers nor our publicists have ever thought of offering us. Publish a little book that teaches us in a few hours of reading all that we need to know.What we are asking of you is not an abridgement of universal science: there are so many things in the world that do not affect us from near and far! But common sense tells us that a man of good will could, with a little effort, grasp in two or three hundred pages all the practical truths which it is important for us to know. [...] "I replied to my correspondent that I accepted the task [...] No one is supposed to ignore the civil and criminal laws that govern us, and really nobody ignores them in their main features. Why does not the vast majority of a people like ours ignore economic laws, eternal, immutable laws, inevitably derived from nature itself? ...