{"product_id":"great-men-are-slain-here-paperback","title":"Great Men Are Slain Here - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eL?on Bloy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreat Men Are Slain Here\u003c\/em\u003e by L?on Bloy is a biography of sorts on Ernest Hello. Originally published in AD 1895 (under the French title of \u003cem\u003eIci on assassine les grands hommes\u003c\/em\u003e), it was meant to provide a necessary corrective to the \"official\" biography commissioned by Mme. Hello, after her husbandʼs passing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL?on Bloy was not a fan of Mme. Hello (nor she of him), and he was even less a fan of her husbandʼs biography, in which she had a heavy hand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreat Men Are Slain Here \u003c\/em\u003eis part biography (to set the record straight), part criticism (of how Mme. Hello treated her husband, his friend, in life and death), and part satire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo tell the virtues of the family, of multiple families, the first phrases of the sublime child, the memorable expressions of papas and mamas, the angelic passions of the young man, his marriage plans, the ineffable purity of soul of the fianc?s and their union under the watching eyes of seraphim; - things that should have remained in proud obscurity; - to go on and on, finally, about Madame Hello, the divine Mama Zo?, in so many pages, great God!... And all that, from beginning to end, in that rheumy form, runny and cold like scrofula, which characterizes the prospectuses of shirtmakers for clergymen or the sacrilegious instructions of propagation excogitated by some libidinous soutanes....\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e[The biographer] strikes a dithyrambic match across his backside and declares to us, among other things, that \"Hello, if read and understood, would illuminate the modern mind,\" that \"his glory, which is that of God, would have been the good fortune of a century.\" In passing, he compares him to the Sun... \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47192541135097,"sku":"9781955392754","price":14.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/IdSrLuvKyM9781955392754.webp?v=1767899180","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/great-men-are-slain-here-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}