• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1 200 €

Réf : 68280

Order

Book

A question about this book?

Add to my virtual collection

Eugène SUE

Les Mystères de Paris

Librairie de Charles Gosselin, Paris 1843, Grd. in-8 (18x27cm), 315pp. ; 313pp. et 319pp. ; 326pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First illustrated edition, printed a few months after the first edition. It is copiously and superbly illustrated with 81 inserts including 34 on steel after Trimolet, Travies, Nanteuil, Pauquet, Saumier, Staal ... and many vignettes on wood in-text. The drawing of the illustrations is well contrasted and of very good quality.
Binding in half black shagreen) with corners of time. Back with false nerves adorned with ornamented boxes, roulette tail and head. Filets gras on the boards. Traces of friction, especially at the head. 8 corners blunt and rubbed.
Originally published in serials in the Journal des débats in 1842-1843, the novel invents a new genre, that of the lowlands and the underworld and that of the city. Before the great works of Paris, Eugène Sue draws the portrait of an underground city, swarming in the social misery of old Paris. we follow the adventures of a vigilante, Rudolph, Duke of Gerosltein, prince disguised as a workman. The work was a smashing success, The characters of this epic of misery and crime become figures of everyday life, whose actions and words are commented on. The book will have many political implications, pleading for aid to misery and will make the bed of the revolution of 1848, create a genre literature and inspire many writers, including Hugo for his Misérables. Sue, meanwhile, following the novel, will experience a brief political career before being sentenced to exile under the Second Empire.
The novel is preceded by a letter from the publisher to the novelist that justifies the choice of illustration.

• 
• 
• 
• 
•