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  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141393131
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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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 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. Chateaubriand spend over three decades writing his memoirs and could be startlingly candid as they would only be published 'from beyond the tomb'. This selection from the Memoirs is almost ridiculously enjoyable, and ranges from describing his life at the court at Versailles to hunting in the North American forests to his exile in England. He also gives definitive dramatic accounts of the invasion of Russia and Napoleon's exile in St Helena.

  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141393131
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
Categories:

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