Author: | François-René de Chateaubriand | ISBN: | 9780141393131 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd | Publication: | February 6, 2014 |
Imprint: | Penguin | Language: | English |
Author: | François-René de Chateaubriand |
ISBN: | 9780141393131 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publication: | February 6, 2014 |
Imprint: | Penguin |
Language: | English |
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.
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.