Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English romanticists, on explorers in America, and on Goethe's Werther, he had a profound effect on French writers from Victor Hugo and Lamartine to George Sand and Flaubert. A quixotic and paradoxical personality, he combined impressive careers as a brilliant prose-poet, a spiritual guide, a high-ranking diplomat, and an enterprising lover. Atala and Ren??? are his two best-known works, reflecting not only his ...
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Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English romanticists, on explorers in America, and on Goethe's Werther, he had a profound effect on French writers from Victor Hugo and Lamartine to George Sand and Flaubert. A quixotic and paradoxical personality, he combined impressive careers as a brilliant prose-poet, a spiritual guide, a high-ranking diplomat, and an enterprising lover. Atala and Ren??? are his two best-known works, reflecting not only his own joys, aspirations, and despair, but the emerging tastes of a new literary era. Atala is the passionate and tragic love story of a young Indian couple wandering in the wilderness, enthralled by the beauties of nature, drawn to a revivified Christianity by its esthetic charm and consoling beneficence, and finally succumbing to the cruelty of fate. Perhaps even more than Werther or Childe Harold, Ren??? embodies the romantic hero, and is not wholly foreign to the disorientation of youth today. Solitary, mysterious, ardent, and poetic, he is in open revolt against a society whose values he rejects. Withough question this archetype played a large part in determining the course of French literature up to the 1850's.
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Add this copy of Atala and Rene to cart. $4.33, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Signet Classics.
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Fair. Front cover has significant wear and tear, endpages have mild staining, Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
Add this copy of Atala and Rene to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Signet Classics.
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Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. This is the softcover stated Signet First Edition from January 1962. Other than a 1/4-inch tear at the top of the cover, some discreet pencilled underlines, and a few dog-ears (no pig's feet! ), both the cover and the book are in very good condition. There are no rips, tears, etc. --and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe.
Add this copy of Atala and Rene to cart. $22.00, good condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Signet Classics.
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Very good; Collectible. This is the softcover stated Signet First Edition from January 1962. Other than a 1/4-inch tear at the top of the cover, some discreet pencilled underlines, and a few dog-ears (no pig's feet! ), both the cover and the book are in very good condition. There are no rips, tears, etc. --and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe.
Add this copy of Atala and Rene to cart. $31.85, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Signet Classics.
