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...Goncourt Academy awarded the 5,000-franc ($300) Goncourt literary prize to M. Lucien Fabre, an automobile engineer, who wrote Rabevel, a family history in three volumes. The importance of winning the prize lies in the prestige it gives the winner and in the increased book sales which result...
...awarded annually for the "book of the year", as there are books published. Bookstains in Montmartre are lost in a maze or color,--red, green, and gold banded book-covers, shutting out the name of the author eagerly displaying the fact that the sevel almost won the "Prix do Goncourt", or that voters in some weekly's popularity contest put only two other books ahead...
...paper appeared, two hundred would-be fishermen and six hundred spectators were on the spot to see the performance repeated. Similarly, he points out, is there a rush of people to the booksellers to obtain some obscure book, because the "Matin" or the "Temps" informs then that the Academic Goncourt has just "recognized...
...dramatization by Edmond de Goncourt of his novel "La Faustin," is the coming Parisian sensation. Scenes of Paris life in it are described as being "ferociously, brutally true...