Jean Gilles Schoolboy (Classic Reprint)

By André Lafon

Excerpt from Jean Gilles Schoolboy

This year no such negative course could be countenanced, under pain of drawing ridicule upon the newly instituted prize.

Grave and exhaustive were the deliberations of the judges - poignant the suspense of the aspirants. The condition that candidates should not present themselves, but that the Acad mie should select the competitors for its favour, left a field as wide as France itself, and greatly enhanced the excitement.

Writers there were in plenty whose feet were already placed on the ladder of fame. The Acad mie was fully alive to their claims, but its desire was rather to distinguish some new author, to discover some hitherto unrecognised talent.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 028231931X
• ISBN13: 9780282319311
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"