Four Short Stories By Emile Zola (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515009603)

At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats whose coverings of cardinal velvet loomed in the subdued light of the dimly burning luster. A shadow enveloped the great red splash of the curtain, and not a sound came from the stage, the unlit footlights, the scattered desks of the orchestra. It was only high overhead in the third gallery, round the domed ceiling where nude females and children flew in heavens which had turned green in the gaslight, that calls and laughter were audible above a continuous hubbub of voices, and heads in women's and workmen's caps were ranged, row above row, under the wide-vaulted bays with their gilt-surrounding adornments.

Author: Emile Zola
ISBN-10: 1515009602
ISBN-13: 9781515009603
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2015
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.39d