Explore some of andre maurois best quotations and sayings on such as a great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. He took his penname from a village in northeast france which he encountered during the great war. Andre maurois definition of andre maurois by the free. Les annees dapprentissage by maurois, andre and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content 45 andre maurois esthetics of biography jack kolbert jack kolbert b, m, university of southern california. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Rudyard kipling, ne a bombay, en inde britannique, le 30 decembre 1865 et mort a londres. Andre maurois parle des livres et des bibliotheques unesco. Andre maurois, french biographer, novelist, and essayist, best known for biographies that maintain the narrative interest of novels. Dictionary of literary biography on andre maurois andre maurois was born emile salomon wilhelm herzog in elbeuf, france, in 1885. Maurois was the son of ernest herzog, a jewish textile.
Andre maurois was born on july 26, 1885 in elbeuf, seineinferieure now seinemaritime, france as emile salomon wilhelm herzog. Written in 1928 by french biographer and novelist andre maurois, climates became a best seller in france and all over europe. Andre maurois et lamerique andre maurois and america kolbert, jack. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. He was a writer, known for pensione edelweiss 1959, thanatos palace hotel and night gallery 1969. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Discover book depositorys huge selection of andre maurois books online. Maurois was the son of ernest herzog, a jewish textile manufacturer, and alice levyrueff herzog. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Andre maurois 18851967i fut, jusqua sa mort, lun des ecrivains les plus lus et. As a bonus, it also provides the ability to protect pdf file, remove password from already protected file. Although this is a translation from the french, it nevertheless captures the elegant prose so characteristic of maurois.
Pdf merge tool allows you to easily and quickly merge multiple files with different formats in a single pdf file. Maurois was born on 26 july 1885 in elbeuf and educated at the lycee pierre corneille in rouen, both in normandy. His family had fled alsace after the francoprussian war of 18701871 and took refuge in normandy, where they owned a woollen mill at elbeuf. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. His father owned a textiles factory, where maurois worked for a time as director before turning to literature.
Born into a prosperous family of textile manufacturers, maurois came under the influence of the french philosopher and teacher alain emileauguste chartier. Although maurois wrote various novels and short stories dealing with french middleclass life, he chiefly excelled as an interpreter of the angloamerican world and as a biographer. Andre maurois books biography and list of works author. Andre maurois was a pseudonym that became his legal name in 1947. Andre maurois biography, pictures, credits,quotes and more. Andre maurois was a french novelist and biographer. Andre maurois quotes french biographer, novelist and essayist, 18851967 similar quotes. In this decision he was influenced by the philosopher alain 18681951, who had taught him in rouen and whose biography maurois published in 1949. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. During world war i he joined the french army and served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer to the. Sentiments et coutumes ebook by andre maurois rakuten kobo.
Andre maurois french writer best known for his biographies emile herzog, maurois. He worked in his fathers textile factory as a young man and when world war one broke out he was employed as an interpreter, then as a. His family, manufacturers originating from germanoccupied alsace, had taken refuge in the seine maritime area following the 1871 defeat of france in the francoprussian war. Dec 03, 2009 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. A member of the javal family, maurois was the son of ernest herzog, a jewish textile manufacturer, and his wife alice levyrueff. It is also known as life writing, a broader term that encompasses autobiography and other narrative forms such as letters, memoirs, journals, and diaries. For example you can easily merge microsoft word format file doc, docx with images format file png, jpg, gif and pdf file. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Born in elbeuf, maurois was descended from alsatian industrialists who moved to normandy after the francoprussian war. I think that this book is a must read for any nonhistorian who would like to improve their understanding and a good starting point from which to go deeper. Andre maurois 1885 1967 french author more author details showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total.
Andre maurois july 26, 1885 october 9, 1967, french. New directions was founded in 1936, when james laughlin 19141997, then a twentytwoyearold harvard sophomore, issued the first of the new directions anthologies. Join facebook to connect with andre maurois and others you may know. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading climates. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. Project gutenberg offers 61,778 free ebooks to download. May contain limited notes underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny.
The first 100,000 copies printed of its russian translation sold out the day they appeared in moscow bookstores. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Andre maurois is currently considered a single author. The role of america and americans in the work and life of author andre maurois. Maurois was an erudite, an acclaimed scholar, a historian, and a deep observer of human nature and psyche. Informations immobilieres, prix au metre carre, points dinterets et commerces au passage andre maurois, 3 toulouse. The real value of an art of living, is that the sentences are not merely a collection of words to convey a practical thought, but a communication to the spirit of the reader. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Tous les ebooks dandre maurois en pdf et epub numilog. One of the oldest genres of literature, biography is a written account of a persons life.
Selected writings of andre maurois by maurois, andre and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. During the war she entered into affairs, and had a nervous breakdown in 1918. Books by maurois, andre sorted by popularity project. Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Andre maurois et lamerique andre maurois and america. During world war i he joined the french army and served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer to the british army. Zlibrary is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains over 4,960,000 books and 77,100,000 articles. Andre maurois parle des livres et des bibliotheques. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a. Andre maurois, born emile salomon wilhelm herzog, was a french author.
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