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Click to view full description | 1. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Disraeli. A picture of the Victorian age.
New York D. Appleton & Co., 1930 Hard Cover
379 pages, 8 plates, cloth, 1st edition, very good. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-81, British statesman and author, regarded as the founder of the modern Conservative party.
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| 2. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Disraeli. A picture of the Victorian age.
Alexandria, VA, Time-Life Books, 1965 Soft Cover
Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. With a new introduction by Henri Peyre. 369 pages, frontispiece (portrait), pictorial wrappers, reprint, very good. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-81, British statesman and author, regarded as the founder of the modern Conservative party.
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| 3. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Disraeli. A picture of the Victorian age.
New York D. Appleton & Co., 1928 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good
379 pages, 8 plates, cloth, 1st edition, very good. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-81, British statesman and author, regarded as the founder of the modern Conservative party.
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| 4. | MAUROIS, ANDRE From the new freedom to the new frontier: a history of the United States from 1912 to the present. Translated by Patrick O'Brien.
New York, David McKay Co., [1962].
xii,[2],365p., cloth.
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| 5. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Lelia. The life of George Sand.
New York Harper & Brothers 1953 Hard Cover Very Good
Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 482 pages, 4 plates, boards, very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: George Sand, pseud. of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baronne Dudevant 1804-76, French novelist. Other variant forms of her maiden name include Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin. Born of an aristocratic father and a lower-class mother, she was reared by her austere paternal grandmother on a country estate in Berry. After entering a convent in Paris, she returned to the countryside and led an unconventional life, donning the male clothes that became a mark of her rebellion. In 1831, after eight years of a marriage of convenience with Baron Dudevant, a country squire, she went with her two children to Paris, obtaining a divorce in 1836. She wrote some 80 novels, which were widely popular in their day, supporting herself and her children chiefly by her writing. Her earlier novels were romantic; later ones often expressed her serious concern with social reform. Her liaisons-with Jules Sandeau, Musset, Chopin, and others-were open and notorious, but were only part of her life. She demanded for women the freedom in living that was a matter of course to the men of her day.
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| 6. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Olympio. The life of Victor Hugo. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins.
New York Harper & Brothers 1956 Hard Cover
498 pages, 4 plates, cloth, dust jacket, frayed dust jacket, else very good. Victor Hugo 1802-85, French poet, novelist, and dramatist.
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| 7. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Prometheus. The life of Balzac.
New York Harper & Row, 1965 Hard Cover
Translated by Norman Denny. 573 pages, 16 plates, cloth, dust jacket, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French novelist, b. Tours. Balzac ranks among the great masters of the novel. Of a bourgeois family, he himself later added the ''de'' to his name. Neglected in childhood, he was sent to a grammar school at Tours and later to a boarding school at Vendôme, where he was a dull student but a voracious reader. In 1816 he began studying law at the Sorbonne, but after receiving his license in 1819 he decided to abandon law for literature. Half starving in a Paris garret, Balzac began writing sensational novels to order, publishing them under a pseudonym. Throughout his life he worked with feverish activity, sleeping a few hours in the evening and writing from midnight until noon or afternoon of the next day. He was ridden with debts, which were increased rather than relieved by his business ventures. Balzac's first success, Les Chouans (1829, first published as Le Dernier Chouan), was followed by La Peau de chagrin (1831). In the next 20 years he produced the vast collection of novels and short stories called ''La Comédie humaine.'' This, his greatest work, is a reproduction of the French society of his time, picturing in precise detail more than 2,000 characters from every class and every profession. The chief novels in ''La Comédie humaine'' are Louis Lambert (1832), Eugénie Grandet (1833), La Recherche de l'absolu (1834), Le Père Goriot (1835), Les Illusions perdues (1837), César Birotteau (1837), La Cousine Bette (1847), and Le Cousin Pons (1847). Outweighing Balzac's faults-his lack of literary style, his moralizing, his tendency toward melodrama-are his originality, his great powers of observation, and his vivid imagination. His short stories include some of the best in the language, but his attempts at drama failed. Though an unattractive, awkward man, Balzac formed several famous liaisons. Only a few months before his death he married the Polish Countess Evelina Hanska, with whom he had conducted a romantic correspondence for 18 years.
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| 8. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Prometheus. The life of Balzac.
New York Harper & Row, 1965 Hard Cover
Translated by Norman Denny. 573 pages, 16 plates, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French novelist, b. Tours. Balzac ranks among the great masters of the novel. Of a bourgeois family, he himself later added the ''de'' to his name. Neglected in childhood, he was sent to a grammar school at Tours and later to a boarding school at Vendôme, where he was a dull student but a voracious reader. In 1816 he began studying law at the Sorbonne, but after receiving his license in 1819 he decided to abandon law for literature. Half starving in a Paris garret, Balzac began writing sensational novels to order, publishing them under a pseudonym. Throughout his life he worked with feverish activity, sleeping a few hours in the evening and writing from midnight until noon or afternoon of the next day. He was ridden with debts, which were increased rather than relieved by his business ventures. Balzac's first success, Les Chouans (1829, first published as Le Dernier Chouan), was followed by La Peau de chagrin (1831). In the next 20 years he produced the vast collection of novels and short stories called ''La Comédie humaine.'' This, his greatest work, is a reproduction of the French society of his time, picturing in precise detail more than 2,000 characters from every class and every profession. The chief novels in ''La Comédie humaine'' are Louis Lambert (1832), Eugénie Grandet (1833), La Recherche de l'absolu (1834), Le Père Goriot (1835), Les Illusions perdues (1837), César Birotteau (1837), La Cousine Bette (1847), and Le Cousin Pons (1847). Outweighing Balzac's faults-his lack of literary style, his moralizing, his tendency toward melodrama-are his originality, his great powers of observation, and his vivid imagination. His short stories include some of the best in the language, but his attempts at drama failed. Though an unattractive, awkward man, Balzac formed several famous liaisons. Only a few months before his death he married the Polish Countess Evelina Hanska, with whom he had conducted a romantic correspondence for 18 years.
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| 9. | MAUROIS, ANDRE The miracle of England. An account of her rise to pre- eminence and present position.
New York Harper & Brothers, 1937 Hard Cover
xvi,500,[1]p., 8 pls., 15 text maps, cloth. later edition, very good.
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| 10. | MAUROIS, ANDRE The Miracle of France.
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1948 Cloth
Translated from the Frency by Henry L. Binsse. 477 pages, plates, cloth, 1st edition, vg.
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| 11. | MAUROIS, ANDRE Women of Paris. Translated by Norman Denny. Photographs by Nico Jesse.
London, Andre Deutsch, 1958 Soft Cover
53 pages, 125 illustrations (photographs), pictorial wrappers.
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| 12. | MAUROIS, ANDRE (1885-1967) The Edwardian Era.
New York D. Appleton-Century Co., 1933 Hard Cover
391 pages, plates, cloth, ex-library, some shelf wear, text v.g.
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| 13. | MAUROIS, ANDRE (1885-1967) The Edwardian Era.
New York D. Appleton-Century Co., 1933 Hard Cover
391 pages, 8 plates, cloth, very good.
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| 14. | MAUROIS, ANDRE. I remember, I remember. Translated from the French by Denver and Jane Lindley.
New York, Harper & Brothers, [1942].
viii,[2],310p., cloth. 2nd edition, dj. Much of this memoir is devoted to his military service in WWI and WWII when he served as liaison officer with the B.E.F. in 1939.
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