title: LA Boheme: Scenes de la vie Boheme (English and French Edition)
author:  Henri Murger 
description: Lovers of Puccini's "La Boheme" will find some surprises in Henri Murger's novel. The Mimi of Murger's novel has not quite the same golden heart as the Mimi of Puccini's opera, and we have, besides, many more characters and incidents than appear in the opera. D.B. Wyndant Lewis called the novel a "classic ... woven out of the gossamer stuff of Youth," and there is, indeed, a freshness, a joy, a light spirit in the face of hunger and temporary homelessness exhibited only by young artists, musicians, and writers devoted to their respective muses. The nearly continual search for rent money, for a meal, for enough cash to buy canvas, the ease with which an old acquaintance can pull the searcher away from his search with the promise of some cheap wine and good talk-all these are beautifully and convincingly recreated in Murger's novel. Puccini may have distilled the essence; here we have all the wonderful raw material. The book's style, well-caught by the translator, aptly complements the joyous life of the bohemians, free of the grinding concerns of commerce, worried about little but the demands never too strict--of their artistic calling. The episodic nature of the book's construction seems apt as well, echoing as it does the uneven lives of the bohemians. Lovers of Puccini would do well to read this book, and no resident of Bohemia should miss it. Highly recommended for most collections. -- <i>From <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/independent-pub.html/${0}">Independent Publisher</a></i>
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  # Mercadet
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Honore De Balzac
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  ACT I
  
  
    
  SCENE FIRST
  
  
    
  SCENE SECOND
  
  
    
  SCENE THIRD
  
  
    
  SCENE FOURTH
  
  
    
  SCENE FIFTH
  
  
    
  SCENE SIXTH
  
  
    
  SCENE SEVENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE EIGHTH
  
  
    
  SCENE NINTH
  
  
    
  SCENE TENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE ELEVENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE TWELFTH
  
  
    
  SCENE THIRTEENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE FOURTEENTH
  
  
  ACT II
  
  
    
  SCENE FIRST
  
  
    
  SCENE SECOND
  
  
    
  SCENE THIRD
  
  
    
  SCENE FOURTH
  
  
    
  SCENE FIFTH
  
  
    
  SCENE SIXTH
  
  
    
  SCENE SEVENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE EIGHTH
  
  
    
  SCENE NINTH
  
  
  ACT III
  
  
    
  SCENE FIRST
  
  
    
  SCENE SECOND
  
  
    
  SCENE THIRD
  
  
    
  SCENE FOURTH
  
  
    
  SCENE FIFTH
  
  
    
  SCENE SIXTH
  
  
    
  SCENE SEVENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE EIGHTH
  
  
    
  SCENE NINTH
  
  
    
  SCENE TENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE ELEVENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE TWELFTH
  
  
    
  SCENE THIRTEENTH
  
  
    
  SCENE FOURTEENTH
  
  
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      Mercadet
  
  
  A Comedy In Three Acts
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  **MERCADET**
  
  
  A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
  
  