Le Blé qui lève

René Bazin

Publié par Forgotten Books, le 12 février 2019

334 pages

Résumé

Excerpt from Le Ble Qui Leve IN order to bring le Ble qui leve within the scope of a text for class use, it was necessary to abridge considerably. In doing so the editor is well aware that he has exposed himself to the charge of having reduced the author's main purpose to secondary rank, by eliminating from the book all the chapters relating to the hero's experience in Belgium, more especially the chapter that relates his conversion. To attain the desired end, however, this risk has been incurred, because, in the first place, it is believed that those chapters have been retained that will prove to be of greatest interest to students using this book as a text; and, in the second place, because the author's sentiments on religion and the church are so clear in the pages retained as to be quite unmistakable.