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The Rapin

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By H. De Vere Stacpoole
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The narrative follows a debonair, irresponsible young man whose pranks and generosity animate Parisian salons and the artistic circles around him. Episodes show his fraught relationship with his aristocratic mother, encounters with painters, critics, and patrons, and a sequence of social misadventures that include artistic ambition, scandal, and quiet compassion. Told in four parts, the work shifts between comic society portraits and more serious meditations on the sorrows and compromises of art, ending in departures and reckonings that test friendships and ambitions while revealing the era's mingling of vanity, talent, and sentiment.

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Title: The Rapin

Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole

Release date: April 3, 2017 [eBook #54483]
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Language: English

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THE RAPIN

BY
HENRY DE VERE STACPOOLE
Author of “Pierrot”

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1899

This book is not for sale outside of the United States and Canada.

Copyright, 1899,
BY
HENRY HOLT & CO.

THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,
RAHWAY, N. J.

FOREWORD.

In the rooms of my friend Otto Struve there hangs a parrot cage containing a somewhat dejected-looking lark. It was given to him by Gustave Garnier, the man who took the Prix de Rome last year—or was it the year before?—and whose picture of a girl was bought by the state for I do not know how many thousand francs before it had hung a fortnight in the Salon. A story connects the painter and the picture and the bird—a story whose name ought to have been “Célestin” but for that eternal unfitness of things which makes the comedy of real life an inverted image of the comedy of romance and demands for the story of Célestin the title of “Toto,” or, if it please you better, “The Rapin.”

H. de V. S.