Alphonse de Lamartine — La Chute D&Apos;Un Ange: ãâPisode
Paris, L. Hachette & Cie, 1870. Leather. A vast metaphysical poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, dealing with a battle of a man between faith and love for a woman. A long metaphysical poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, important French author who played a major part in the foundation of the Second Republic. Originally published in 1838, the present volume comprises a fragment of a vaster poem, the story concerning a young man who intended to take up a religious, devoted life, but falls in love with a young woman when cast out of the seminar by the Revolution. Re-backed in a quarter morocco binding, retaining the original cloth boards, with four raised bands and new marbled endpapers. Externally smart with minor shelf wear and minor soiling to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor faint scattered spotting throughout, and a faint tidemark to the upper margin of the text block, not affecting the text. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
