comtesse de Elisabeth Galos Houdetot 1 hr 43 min read

The memoirs of an umbrella, passed from hand to hand, witness to the comedies and secrets of every owner it shelters.

The comtesse de Houdetot's 1864 'Memoirs of an Umbrella' is a charming, whimsical French object-narrator fantasy. Light, satirical, of its era. Read it for a delightful conceit, the whole of society glimpsed from beneath the ribs of a much-traveled umbrella, in French.

In its time

Published in 1864, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

1 hr 43 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Henry Gerbault