The Russian Prince Trepof travels the world building his matchbox collection in this novel, and the title character is surprised to find that the Princess Trepof once lived in poverty without even the means to buy firewood in the winter.
Quizbowlers might sympathize with the narrator of this work, who recalls that at the age of eight he "longed impatiently for the day (which alas! has come) when a strong beard should bristle on my chin." Many years later that man publishes a study on the fertilization of flowers. One character who models a statue of an ink-throwing fairy is treated much better at school when it is discovered that another character is a Member of the Institute. The protagonist helps the student Henri Gelis with his thesis and later sells most of his collection to fund the young man's marriage to the ward of the title character. The Russian Prince Trepof travels the world building his matchbox collection in this novel, and the title character is surprised to find that the Princess Trepof once lived in poverty without even the means to buy firewood in the winter. For 10 points, name this novel where the gentle old title character abducts the red-handed Jeanne from her notary guardian Maitre Mouche, an 1881 work about a book lover by Anatole France.
Quizbowlers might sympathize with the narrator of this work, who recalls that at the age of eight he "longed impatiently for the day (which alas! has come) when a strong beard should bristle on my chin.
The {Crime} of {Sylvester Bonnard}