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Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of the well-known novelist from his childhood in Nantes, France, to his career as a successful fiction writer whose imaginative works often gave glimpses into the future.
23) Victor Hugo
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In this biography of the great Victor Hugo, "by grasping the giant in his entirety, and in his many disguises, Robb rewards us with a panorama of French and European society from the Revolution to the dawn of the twentieth century."--Jacket.
25) Open heart
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
32) Albert Camus
Author
Series
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One of France's most high-profile writers and a Nobel Prize-winner, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during his career, which was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. His novels The Outsider and The Plague earned him a reputation as a writer who captured the mood of the age. Edward J. Hughes unravels the life of a complex personality whose work and stance were the subjects of intense interest and scrutiny....
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
How does one live? How does one do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Montaigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them "essays," meaning "attempts" or "tries." Into them, he put whatever was in his...
39) Voltaire: a life
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Voltaire's life (1694-1778): his early imprisonment in the Bastille; exile in England and his mastery of English; an obsession with money, of which he made a huge amount; a scandalous love life; his infatuation with Frederick the Great; a long exile on the borders of Switzerland; his passion for watch-making; his human rights campaigns and his triumphant return to Paris to die there as celebrity extraordinaire....
