The Incomplete Amorist

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The Incomplete Amorist (1906)
by Edith Nesbit

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There are several reasons why The Incomplete Amorist is deserving of attention. To begin with, it treats old and well-worn material in a new and whimsical way. Those who insist upon classifying novels would call it a story of Paris studio life [...] Yet never before was a Vie de Bohême so strangely and so innocently pictured as in this unique book by E. Nesbit. It certainly takes an effort of the imagination to conceive of an inexperienced and unprotected young girl, the daughter of an English vicar, living quite alone for a year in the Paris art colony, unconsciously skirting the margin of many a pitfall. . . . [—extract from a review by Frederic Taber Cooper in The Bookman, October 1906. Full review (with spoilers) in the Discussion page]

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"Oh, what a pity," said Betty from the heart, "that we aren't introduced now!"

The

Incomplete Amorist

BY
E. NESBIT

Author of "The Red House"
"The Wouldbegoods, etc.

Illustrated by
CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD

NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Company
1906

To
Richard Reynolds
and
Justus Miles Forman

"Faire naitre un désir, le nourrir, le développer,
le grandir, le satisfaire, c'est un poeme tout entier."

—Balzac.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1924, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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