The Nabob

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Item Weight: 10.9 Oz Item Height: 0.4 in Genre: Fiction Number of Pages: 166 Pages Topic: Literary Publisher: CreateSpace width: 6 in Publication Year: 2015 Format: Trade Paperback Item Width: 6 in Item Length: 9 in Author: Alphonse Alphonse Daudet Book Title: Nabob Language: English height: 0.4 in ISBN: 9781516922680

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The Nabob. Title: The Nabob. Number of Pages: 168. Weight: 0.56 lbs. Publication Date: 2015-08-15. Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: The Nabob ISBN13: 9781516922680 ISBN10: 1516922689 Author: Alphonse Daudet (Author) Description: (This is a RePrint) - Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 - 16 December 1897) Was A French Novelist He Was The Father Of Writers L On Daudet And Lucien Daudet Daudet Was Born In N Mes, France His Family, On Both Sides, Belonged To The Bourgeoisie The Father, Vincent Daudet, Was A Silk Manufacturer - A Man Dogged Through Life By Misfortune And Failure Alphonse, Amid Much Truancy, Had A Depressing Boyhood In 1856 He Left Lyon, Where His Schooldays Had Been Mainly Spent, And Began His Career As A Schoolteacher At Al S, Gard, In The South Of France The Position Proved To Be Intolerable And Daudet Said Later That For Months After Leaving Al S He Would Wake With Horror, Thinking He Was Still Among His Unruly Pupils On 1 November 1857, He Abandoned Teaching And Took Refuge With His Brother Ernest Daudet, Only Some Three Years His Senior, Who Was Trying, And Thereto Soberly, To Make A Living As A Journalist In Paris Alphonse Took To Writing, And His Poems Were Collected Into A Small Volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), Which Met With A Fair Reception He Obtained Employment On Le Figaro, Then Under Cartier De Villemessant's Energetic Editorship, Wrote Two Or Three Plays, And Began To Be Recognized, Among Those Interested In Literature, As Possessing Individuality And Promise Morny, Napoleon Iii's All-Powerful Minister, Appointed Him To Be One Of His Secretaries - A Post Which He Held Till Morny's Death In 1865 - And Showed Daudet No Small Kindness Daudet Had Put His Foot On The Road To Fortune Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Publication Date: 2015-08-15 Weight: 0.56 lbs Dimensions: 0.39'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' W Number of Pages: 168 Language: English