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Title: The Wandering Jew, Complete

Author: Eugene Sue

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THE WANDERING JEW

By Eugene Sue

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF THE WANDERING JEW: EUGENE SUE

(1804-1857)

Time and again physicians and seamen have made noteworthy reputations as
novelists. But it is rare in the annals of literature that a man trained
in both professions should have gained his greatest fame as a writer of
novels. Eugene Sue began his career as a physician and surgeon, and then
spent six years in the French Navy. In 1830, when he returned to
France, he inherited his father's rich estate and was free to follow
his inclination to write. His first novel, "Plick et Plock", met with
an unexpected success, and he at once foreswore the arts of healing and
navigation for the precarious life of a man of letters. With varying
success he produced books from his inexhaustible store of personal
experiences as a doctor and sailor. In 1837, he wrote an authoritative
work on the French Navy, "Histoire de la marine Francaise".

More and more the novel appealed to his imagination and suited his
gifts. His themes ranged from the fabulous to the strictly historical,
and he became popular as a writer of romance and fictionized fact.
His plays, however, were persistent failures. When he published "The
Mysteries of Paris", his national fame was assured, and with the writing
of "The Wandering Jew" he achieved world-wide renown. Then, at the
height of his literary career, Eugene Sue was driven into exile after
Louis Napoleon overthrew the Constitutional Government in a coup d'etat
and had himself officially proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III. The author
of "The Wandering Jew" died in banishment five years later.

Book I.

Part First.--The Transgression.
Prologue.--The Lands End of the World.
I. Morok
II. The Travellers
III. The Arriv