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Joseph Marie Eugene Sue (1804-1857), a French novelist, was born in Paris. He acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino (1828). His naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, Kernock le Pirate (1830), Atar-Gull (1831), La Salamandre (2v/1832), La Coucaratcha (4v/1832- 1834), and others, which were composed at the height of the Romantic movement of 1830. In the quasi-historical style he wrote Jean show more Cavalier; ou, Les Fanatiques des Cevennes (4v/1840) and Lautreaumont (2v/1837). He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the day, and these prompted his most famous works: Les Mysteres de Paris (10v/1842-1843) and Le Juif Errant (tr. The Wandering Jew) (11v/1844-1845), which were among the most popular specimens of the roman-feuilleton. His period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of Alexandre Dumas, pere, with whom he has been compared. show lessTags
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VOL. 1-5 , TJE JESUITS, 'TOO LATE HE FEELS, BY LOOK, OR DEED, AND WORD, HOW OFTEN HE HAS CRUCIFIED HIS LORD'
Le roman-feuilleton d’Eugène Sue, le Juif errant, a connu l’un des plus grands succès publics du XIXe siècle. Le titre est cependant trompeur puisque ce roman n’est pas véritablement axé sur ce personnage. En effet, il raconte les intrigues menées par les Jésuites pour s’emparer du fabuleux héritage d’un protestant que la Compagnie avait acculé au suicide. Face à eux, le juif errant et son homologue féminin, Hérodiade, s’efforcent d’être les anges gardiens des héritiers, qui sont en outre leurs derniers descendants. Mais Sue exploite surtout l’idée de la malédiction qui accompagne le juif errant en faisant coïncider son arrivée à Paris avec l’épidémie de choléra d’avril 1832 qui a fait plus de show more douze mille victimes (on ignorait encore presque tout sur cette maladie et son mode de propagation). La violente dénonciation de la Compagnie de Jésus fait suite à l’ouvrage de Jules Michelet et Edgar Quinet, Des Jésuites (1843), qui valut aux auteurs leur révocation. Le roman de Sue est (entre autres) un réquisitoire contre le fanatisme et l’intolérance religieuse, et se termine sur la fin des souffrances du juif errant et d’Hérodiade. show less
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Eugene Sue was a contemporary of Dickens and Thackeray. Immensely succesful, he was known as "the king of the popular novel." One of the most elegant members of Parisian society, he was a passionate horse-lover and eager to do all he could to help improve the quality of French bloodstock Alex de Jonge was an Oxford don for most of his professional show more life. He is the author of numerous books and articles on a wide variety of subjects and has appeared on A&E's Biography and The History Channel. He and his wife live on a horse farm in Virginia show less
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- El judío errante
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- Le Juif errant
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- 1844-1845 (10 volumes) (10 volumes)
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- Wandering Jew; Dagobert; Rose; Blanche; Morok
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- The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America—the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow channel, known as Behring's Straits. (Prologue)
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