{"product_id":"memoirs-from-beyond-the-grave-1768-1800-paperback","title":"Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrançois-René de Chateaubriand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlex Andriesse\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAnka Muhlstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten over the course of four decades, Fran ois-Ren  de Chateaubriand's epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Barthes, and Sebald. Here, in the first books of his massive \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 seven years of exile in England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this new edition (the first unabridged English 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 egotist whose meditations on the meaning of history, memory, and morality are leavened with a mixture of high whimsy and memorable gloom.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois-René de Chateaubriand \u003c\/b\u003e(1768-1848), a writer, historian, and diplomat, is considered one of the France's first Romantic authors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlex Andriesse \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and translator. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, and western Massachusetts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnka Muhlstein \u003c\/b\u003ewas awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1996 for her biography of \u003ci\u003eAstolphe de Custine\u003c\/i\u003e, and has twice received the History Prize of the French Academy.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 584\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770373865760,"sku":"9781681371290","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/755b3d5022733564db8029dd9e1776b0.webp?v=1780370387","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/memoirs-from-beyond-the-grave-1768-1800-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}