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  • Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

    The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutionsMemoirs 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 ... Read more

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  • 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 ... Read more

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  • The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England: Mémoires d'outre-tombe (Complete)

    As it is not possible for me to foresee the moment of my end; as at my age the days accorded to man are but days of grace, or rather of reprieve, I propose, lest I be taken by surprise, to make an explanation touching a work with which I intend to cheat the tedium of those last forlorn hours which we neither desire, nor know how to employ. The Memoirs prefaced by these lines embrace and will ... Read more

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  • Atala

    Love and Sacrifice: The story explores the theme of sacrificial love, particularly through Atala’s internal conflict and ultimate decisions. It examines how personal desires can conflict with religious and moral commitments.Faith and Redemption: The religious and spiritual elements are central to the narrative, highlighting themes of faith, redemption, and the struggle between worldly desires and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atala

    Illustrated with engravings by Gustave Dore. According to Wikipedia: "Atala is an early novella by François-René de Chateaubriand, first published on 12 germinal IX (2 April 1801). The work, inspired by his travels in North America, had an immense impact on early Romanticism, and went through five editions in its first year. It was adapted frequently for stage, and translated into many languages. ... Read more

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  • Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830

    The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in Europe, now in a new, unabridged English translation—the first in a century.In 1815—with the Napoleonic era at an end and royalty restored—François-René de Chateaubriand seemed poised, along with ... Read more

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  • Atala, Or Love And Constancy Of Two Savages In The Desert

    by Chateaubriand ...
    The first great American novel, albeit one written by a Frenchman. Chateaubriand's classic tale of Indian amours was, with Lewis' The Monk and Coleridge's opium dealer, the inspiration for all Romantic works to follow. ... Read more

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  • Atala

    Enriched edition.

    In "Atala," François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand weaves a poignant tale of love, faith, and sacrifice set against the backdrop of the American wilderness. Written in the early 19th century, this novella exemplifies the romantic literary style characterized by its emotive language and exploration of human passions. The narrative follows the tragic romance between a Native American woman, Atala, ... Read more

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  • Atala

    Atala by Franois Auguste de Chateaubriand. ... Read more

    $0.98 CAD

  • Audiobook

    100 Quotes by François-René de Chateaubriand

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Uncover one of the most influential figures in French literature with '100 Quotes by François-René de Chateaubriand'.French writer, politician, diplomat and historian, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition and a defender of the Catholic faith. During a time when society turned against the Church, he produced the defensive 'Génie du Christianisme'.Following his autobiography ... Read more

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  • Atala

    "France formerly possessed in North America a vast empire, extending from Labrador to the Floridas, and from the shores of the Atlantic to the most distant lakes of Upper Canada. "Four great rivers, deriving their sources from the same mountains, divided these immense regions: the river St. Lawrence, which is lost to the east in the gulf of that name; the Western River, whose waters flow on to ... Read more

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  • 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. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD