Pierre Loti's islands of adventure.(In Love with a Handsome Sailor)(Book Review)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In Love with a Handsome Sailor by Richard M. Berrong Univ. of Toronto Press. 310 pages, $60.

BROWSING the used booksellers' bins along the quais of the Seine can still be a good, if misleading, literary education. Nowadays only a few high-minded dealers offer literature. The selection doesn't reflect literary history so much as it does what the French actually bought and read in, say, the early decades of the 20th century. The green boxes groan with Anatole France, both Daudets, and deluxe editions of Maeterlinck's La Vie des Abeilles lovingly packaged in cellophane. And a ...

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