My Village (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from My Village

Here artists struggle with all their might for fame; while others, more practical, are aiming after wealth. The disinterested and the mercenary battle on together. The peasant, terribly matter-of-fact, labors from sunrise to sunset, working the earth he loves for the money it brings him, ever saving and economizing. As he gains, he hoards his wealth to buy more earth and (a universal ambition) to pose before his neighbors, much as do the business men in great cities.

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Excerpt from My Village

Yet the life of the village, though small and unimportant, still comprises in its own way all the complications of life in general.

Here the petty ambitions and their workings are simply feebler specimens of those which move mighty Paris and the great world. The troubles and misfortunes of general life are nearly all more or less represented. The pain and joy, success and failure, though ever so humble, are still as important here as are greater ones in greater places. Valombre is an epitome of the world and its life. And here humanity can be studied, and conclusions reached which can be applied to any other village or city. Its characteristics, though its own, are still based on the common big lines of average life, men and women at bottom being much the same the world over, once one gets to know them well. Outer appearances are different; but the base rarely changes. Given the same conditions and circumstances, knowing a few, one can count with reason able accuracy on how the others will act.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.