Memoirs From Beyond The Grave 1768 1800
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Memoirs From Beyond The Grave 1768 1800
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Author : François-René de Chateaubriand
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2018-02-20
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave 1768 1800 written by François-René de Chateaubriand and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 George Washington in Philadelphia, and falling hopelessly in love with a young woman named Charlotte in the small Suffolk town of Bungay. The volume ends with Chateaubriand’s return to France after eight years of exile in England. In this new edition (the first unabridged translation of any portion of the Memoirs to be published in more than a century), Chateaubriand emerges as a writer of great wit and clarity, a self-deprecating egoist whose meditations on the meaning of history, memory, and morality are leavened with a mixture of high whimsy and memorable gloom.
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave 1800 1815
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Author : François-Réne Chateaubriand
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2022-09-27
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave 1800 1815 written by François-Réne Chateaubriand and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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’Enghien’s execution, putting his own life at tremendous risk. Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800–1815—the second volume in Alex Andriesse’s new and complete translation of this epic French classic—is a chronicle of triumphs and sorrows, narrating not only the author’s life during a tumultuous period in European history but the “parallel life” of Napoleon. In these pages, Chateaubriand continues to paint his distinctive self-portrait, in which the whole history of France swirls around the sitter like a mist of dreams.
Memoirs From Beyond The Tomb
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Author : François-René de Chateaubriand
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Memoirs From Beyond The Tomb written by François-René de Chateaubriand and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Living And Non Living In The Grasslands
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Author : Rebecca Rissman
language : en
Publisher: Raintree
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Living And Non Living In The Grasslands written by Rebecca Rissman and has been published by Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
How can you tell if something is living or non-living in the grasslands? Children reading this book explore a stunning grassland habitat while learning how to tell the difference between living and non-living things, such as prairie dogs, snakes, and rocks. Headers in the form of questions help guide the reader as they learn the properties of living and non-living things.
Saint Simon And The Court Of Louis Xiv
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Author : Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-07
Saint Simon And The Court Of Louis Xiv written by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07 with History categories.
The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a self-obsessed courtier and chronicler of court life under Louis XIV. Drawing heavily on his memoirs, historian Ladurie offers a wonderful portrait of life with Louis, focusing on issues of hierarchy and rank in this tightly controlled universe. Illustrations.
In The Eye Of The Wild
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Author : Nastassja Martin
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2021-11-16
In The Eye Of The Wild written by Nastassja Martin and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Social Science categories.
After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin’s professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker’s classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal And His Time
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Author : Hermann Broch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1984-08-15
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal And His Time written by Hermann Broch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory, and his varied criticism. This study reveals Broch as a major historian as well, one who believes that true historical understanding requires the faculties of both poet and philosopher. Through an analysis of the changing thought and career of the Austrian poet, librettist, and essaist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Broch attempts to define and analyze the major intellectual issues of the European fin de siècle, a period that he characterizes according to the Nietzschean concepts of the breakdown of rationality and the loss of a central value system. The result is a major examination of European thought as well as a comparative study of political systems and artistic styles.
All For Nothing
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Author : Walter Kempowski
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2018-02-13
All For Nothing written by Walter Kempowski and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-13 with Fiction categories.
A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.
The Memoirs Of Fran Ois Ren
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Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
The Memoirs Of Fran Ois Ren written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Authors, French categories.
The Book Of Illusions
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Author : Paul Auster
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2008-09-04
The Book Of Illusions written by Paul Auster and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Fiction categories.
The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh . . . Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer's obsession with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann's wife, and inviting him to visit the great Mann himself. Can Hector Mann be alive? Zimmer cannot decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. 'A nearly flawless work . . . Auster will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Auster's elegant, finely calibrated The Book of Illusions is a haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship.' TheNew York Times