Quotes from Alexandre Dumas fils's books, and about them
Camille on Manon Lescaut: “All at once I heard: "A volume, beautifully bound, gilt-edged, entitled Manon Lescaut.”
The Idiot on La Dame aux Camelias: “At that time Dumas-fils' beautiful work, _La Dame aux Camelias_--a novel which I consider imperishable--had just come into fashion.”
Mrs Warren's Profession on The Lady of the Camellias: “]; and ask yourself whether, if the lot in life therein described were your lot in life, you would not prefer the lot of Cleopatra, of Theodora, of the Lady of the Camellias, of Mrs Tanqueray, of Zaza, of Iris.”
The Awkward Age on Denise: “What earthly intellectual distinction, what'prestige' of achievement, would have attached to the substance of such things as'Denise,' as'Monsieur Alphonse,' as'Francillon' (and we take the Dumas of the supposedly subtler period)”
The Awkward Age on Francillon: “What earthly intellectual distinction, what'prestige' of achievement, would have attached to the substance of such things as'Denise,' as'Monsieur Alphonse,' as'Francillon' (and we take the Dumas of the supposedly subtler period)”
The Awkward Age on Monsieur Alphonse: “What earthly intellectual distinction, what'prestige' of achievement, would have attached to the substance of such things as'Denise,' as'Monsieur Alphonse,' as'Francillon' (and we take the Dumas of the supposedly subtler period)”