Night of Fires

Excerpt from The Night of Fires: And Other Breton Studies It is now some four years since I ended my pleasant task of translating Anatole le Braz' Au Pays des Pardons. To-day I finish an English version of another of his works. That land of pardons, of which the earlier book treated, has become more or less familiar to English and American travellers. But the Brittany of which the present book tells is still comparatively unknown, and when, quite lately, I passed through it, following in the steps of the great Breton author, I found the country almost as primitive, and fully as picturesque, as in those dark ages when as yet bicycles and motors were not. I suppose no one but our author could have introduced us to such places and people as those described in the five following studies. Only a true-born Breton would find himself a welcome guest at a solemn Feast of the Dead such as that held hi the inn at Spezet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.