Tahiti the Marriage of Loti

ISBN-13: 9780710308214 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 232 str.

Loti;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

A tale of amorous dalliance in Polynesia, this is the exotic romance par excellence. Set in Tahiti in 1872, it is an autobiographical novel that tells of the love affair between a beautiful island girl and the French naval officer who wrote under the name of Pierre Loti. It is a sensuous book, full of the stormy passions of young love, the adventure of being in a strange and mysterious country, the excitement of slipping away to tryst in secret glades, the bittersweet happiness of lovers who know they are fated to part. Containing some of the finest lyrical evocations of island life ever written, this is the book that fixed the romantic Polynesian idyll in the public imagination for all time.

Spis treści

Part 1 BY LOTI'S FRIEND PLUNKET; Chapter 2 AHARRY GRANT (LOTI, BEFORE HE WAS RENAMED) TO HIS SISTER AT BRIGHTBURY, YORKSHIRE (ENGLAND); Chapter 5 PALACE AFFAIRS; Chapter 17 LOTI TO HIS SISTER AT BRIGHTBURY; Chapter 23 SOCIAL ECONOMY AND PHILOSOPHY; Chapter 24 A CLOUD; Chapter 25 STILL A CLOUD; Chapter 26 THE CLOUD DARKENS; Chapter 27 THE CLOUD BURSTS; Chapter 30 LOTI'S DIARY; Chapter 33 GASTRONOMICAL; Chapter 37 LOTI TO JOHN B., ON BOARD THE REINDEER ; Chapter 43 NUKA-HIVA; A HORS-D'ŒUVRE; Chapter 52 RARAHU'S FIRST LETTER TO LOTI; Chapter 53 QUEEN VAEKEHU; Chapter 54 DEATH OF VAEKEHU; Chapter 55 FUNEREAL; Chapter 56 LOTI AT HOME; Chapter 58 MUOFARE; Chapter 59 PEACEFUL TIMES; Chapter 60 THE LEGEND OF THE POMOTOUS AS NARRATED BY QUEEN POMARE; Chapter 67 THE LEGEND OF THE MOONS; Chapter 68 IN THE HIGH STREET; Chapter 89 REVELATIONS; Chapter 90 THE CHINESE QUARTER—A HORS D'ŒUVRE; NOTE BY PLUNKET; Chapter 137 RARAInJ TO LOTIJ A YEAR LATER; Chapter 138 LOTI'S DIARY; Chapter 139 NOTE BY PLUNKET;

O autorze

Pierre Loti, perhaps the world's most prolific, romantic and exotic travel writer.