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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Meta Helena Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813195071
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Chateaubriand's Travels in America, presented here in its first modern translation, was a reflection of the attitudes of his epoch toward the New World. And at the same time, because of his enormous literary reputation, it has continued to be a major source of European impressions about America. The America portrayed by Chateaubriand was much more a product of his reading and his imagination than of his actual visit. (His supposed itinerary included a trip up the Hudson to Albany, a visit to Niagara Falls via the Mohawk Trail, a trip down the Mississippi to the Natchez country, and even a visit to the Carolinas and the southern tip of Florida). Though the Frenchman of the nineteenth century could have obtained a much truer picture of America in any number of realistic works, he still chose the poetic evocation of Chateaubriand because he shared the same temperament, the same prejudices, and the same particular view of the world.

Author: François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Maximilian Josef Rudwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Richard Switzer
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600034999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Francois René Chateaubriand
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734060958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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

Author: François René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: François-Réne Chateaubriand
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1681376172
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.