Edmond FranA§ois Valentin About (1828-1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. He made his name as an entertaining anti-clerical writer. In Tolla (1855), About was charged with drawing too freely on an earlier Italian novel, Vittoria Savelli (1841). This aroused prejudice against him, and he was the object of numerous attacks. The Lettres da??un Bon Jeune Homme, written to the Figaro under the signature of a??Valentin de Quevillya??, provoked more animosities. During the next few years, he wrote novels, stories, a play (which failed), a book-pamphlet on the Roman question, many pamphlets on other subjects of the day, innumerable newspaper articles, some art criticisms, rejoinders to the attacks of his enemies, and popular manuals of political economy, La??A B C du Travailleur (1868) and Le ProgrA?s (1864). His more serious novels include Madelon (1863), La??InfA?me (1867), and Le Roman da??un Brave Homme (1880). He is best remembered as a farceur, for the books Le Roi des Montagnes (1856), Le Nez da??un Notaire (1862), La??Homme A la??Oreille CassA©e (1862) and Le Cas de M. GuA©rin (1862). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Man with the Broken Ear (Dodo Press) (Edmond About)