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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 585

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800

Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and the first rumblings of the French Revolution. He recalls playing games on the beaches of Saint-Malo, wandering in the woods near his father’s castle in Combourg, hunting with King Louis XVI at Versailles, witnessing the first heads carried on pikes through the streets of Paris, meeting with Georg...

The Memoirs of François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Sometime Ambassador to England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342
The Memoirs of François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Sometime Ambassador to England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336
Atala and Rene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 127

Atala and Rene

Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English romanticists, on explorers in America, and on Goethe's Werther, he had a profound effect on French writers from Victor Hugo and Lamartine to George Sand and Flaubert. A quixotic and paradoxical personality, he combined impressive careers as a brilliant prose-poet, a spiritual guide, a high-ranking diplomat, and an enterprising lover. Atala and René are his two best-known works, reflecting not only his own joys, aspirations, and despair, but the emerging tastes of a new literary era. Atala is the passionate and tragic love story of a young Indian couple wandering in the wil...

Atala
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

Atala

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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 801

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815

The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls. Over the next fifteen years, his life was utterly changed. He published Atala, René, and The Genius of Christianity to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He served Napoleon in Rome, then resigned in protest after the Duc d’En...

The Memoirs of René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

The Memoirs of René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England

Reproduction of the original: The Memoirs of René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England by Francois René Chateaubriand

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-06
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.