Le Pays de l'or

Hendrik ConscienceProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 278K words
Chapters: 28

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 Pays de l'or by Hendrik ConscienceAuthor: Conscience, Hendrik, 1812-1883,Language: French, Class: PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures, Release Date: Dec 1, 2003

Editor's review

Hendrik Conscience was a major nineteenth-century Flemish writer, and this novel, The Land of Gold, written in French and digitized by Project Gutenberg, has thus gained wide circulation. The work continues the author's style of weaving folk narrative with moral fable, centering on the lure of wealth and human choice; it has the appeal of an adventure story while retaining the plainness of regional literature. For Chinese readers it offers a window onto the intersection of Low Countries literary tradition and French-language writing: one can sense the rhythm of nineteenth-century European popular narrative and the author's reflections on greed and fate. The Project Gutenberg edition is a public-domain eBook, easy to search and cite, and suitable as supplementary material for foreign-literature courses or as a textual sample for comparative-literature research. It is best read against the background of the awakening of Flemish national literature, rather than judged by the standards of the modern novel.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers studying nineteenth-century Flemish literature and French-language writing
Literature enthusiasts interested in foreign regional narrative and moral fable
University teachers and students needing public-domain electronic texts for course materials
Readers hoping to broaden their视野 of European minority-language literature

Not a good fit for

Readers who prefer fast-paced modern genre fiction may find the narrative slow
Readers unaccustomed to nineteenth-century European literary register and moralizing
Readers who want only a Chinese translation will need to look for one separately

Reading tips

First learn Conscience's place in Flemish literary history; the main text will then read more smoothly.
Read the book's treatment of wealth and desire alongside contemporary European popular fiction.
Use the electronic edition's search function to mark character threads, offsetting the reading resistance of classical narrative pacing.
After finishing, write a short review recording differences and resonances between the work and contemporary views of wealth.

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He was a nineteenth-century Flemish writer whose works drew on folk life and regional experience and often carried a moral-fable quality. Read this book in light of its period to understand his way of observing human nature and society.

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About the author

Hendrik Conscience Author · Belgian · 1812–1883

Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883) was a Belgian Flemish-language novelist. Born in Antwerp, he took part in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. In 1838 his historical novel De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (The Lion of Flanders) founded the tradition of the Flemish novel, and he has been called "the man who taught his people to read." His works mostly draw on Flemish history and country life, blending historical romance with realistic sketches of ordinary existence. The library holds 21 of his works, including the German translation Der Löwe von Flandern, De Kerels van Vlaanderen, De Ziekte der Verbeelding, De baanwachter, The Amulet and The Poor Gentleman. Beyond the outline of his life, public information on his education and official career is limited, and none is supplied here.