Edmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.
Caricature of About by André Gill, 1867.
About at the time of his first notoriety, by Félix-Henri Giacomotti, 1858 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
The grave of Edmond About in Pere La Chaise Cemetery in Paris
The Wings of the Dove
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The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. It tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these pe
Edmond François Valentin About
…Cemetery in Paris includes a sculpture by Gustave Crauck. About's 1857 novel Germaine would suggest the basic premise of Henry James's 1902 novel, Wings of the Dove. L'uomo dall'orecchio mozzato, directed by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle (Italy, 1916, based on the novel L'Homme à l'oreille cassée…
Cover of the first UK edition