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| + | # Without [[distinguish]]ing [[qualities]] or [[characteristic]]s; [[unexceptional]]. | ||
| + | #: ''He drove a '''nondescript''' silver sedan.'' | ||
| - | His best and most characteristic work, some of which is exquisite in its kind, consists partly of short tales of a more or less fantastic character, partly of [[nondescript]] articles, half bibliographic, half narrative, the nearest analogue to which in English is to be found in some of the papers of [[Thomas de Quincey]]. The best examples of the latter are to be found in the volume entitled ''[[Mélanges tirés d'une petite bibliothèque]]'', published in 1829 and afterwards continued. Of his tales the best are ''Smarra, ou les démons de la nuit'' (1821); ''Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail'' (1822); ''Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux'' (1830); ''La Fée aux miettes'' (1832); ''Inès de las Sierras'' (1838); ''Les quatre talismans et la légende de soeur Béatrix'' (1838), together with some fairy stories published in the year of his death, and ''Franciscus Columna'', which appeared after it. The ''Souvenirs de jeunesse'' (1832) are interesting but untrustworthy, and the ''Dictionnaire universel de la langue française'' (1823), which, in the days before [[Émile Littré|Littré]], was one of the most useful of its kind, is said to have been not wholly or mainly Nodier's. There is a so-called collection of ''Œuvres complêtes'', in 12 vols. (1832), but at that time much of the author's best work had not appeared, and it included but a part of what was actually published. Nodier found an indulgent biographer in [[Prosper Merimée]] on the occasion of the younger man's admission to the academy. | ||
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- Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics; unexceptional.
- He drove a nondescript silver sedan.
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