The Black Hunter

Henri-Émile ChevalierProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 317K words
Chapters: 32

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Le chasseur noir by H. Emile ChevalierAuthor: Chevalier, H. Emile (Henri Emile), 1828-1879,Language: French, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Mar 10, 2006

Editor's review

This book is Le chasseur noir (The Black Hunter), a novel by the nineteenth-century French writer H. Emile Chevalier, newly available as a public-domain ebook through Project Gutenberg. As a French literary work, it preserves the feel and rhythm of nineteenth-century narrative literature and has documentary value for readers studying French popular fiction, colonial-era themes, or the French literary tradition. The electronic edition is based on early scans, so readers must adapt to old-style typesetting and possible OCR traces. It is better suited as graded extensive reading for language learners or as supplementary material for literary researchers than for contemporary readers seeking strong plot and fast pacing. Enter with a literary-historical perspective, focusing on its narrative techniques and period markers rather than judging its structure by modern novel standards.

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French majors who need nineteenth-century French texts for extensive reading practice
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Use a French dictionary and nineteenth-century background materials, taking notes on vocabulary and historical facts as you read.
Read alongside French adventure novels of the same period to observe similarities and differences in themes and narrative conventions.

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About the author

Henri-Émile Chevalier Author · French · 1828–1879

Henri-Émile Chevalier (1828–1879) was a French journalist, novelist and librarian, born in Châtillon in 1828 and died in Paris in 1879. For political reasons he went into exile in the United States and Canada, where he edited the periodical La Ruche and became familiar with the geography and peoples of North America. The collection holds thirteen of his works, including Le chasseur noir, Les derniers Iroquois, La Tête-Plate, La fille des indiens rouges and Jacques Cartier. Most are adventure novels about Native Americans, combining exotic settings and historical narrative with tight plotting and attention to indigenous life and tribal conflict. Public information is limited, and a full survey of his output and literary standing remains to be compiled, but existing sources show him to be a representative nineteenth-century French writer of North American adventure fiction.