Two classic tales together in one full length novel, each espousing the original virtues of Christianity and written by the founder of Romanticism in French literature "Atala," published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine, the mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American c[...]
This is 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 accou[...]
"Yö oli hurmaava. Ilmojen haltijatar heilutti sinisiä, männyntuoksuisia hiuksiaan, ja kaikkialla leijui vieno ambran tuoksu..." François-René de Chateaubriandin (1768-1848) Atala on mestariteos, intohimoinen ja traaginen rakkaustarina kahdesta intiaanista, jotka vaeltavat villin luonnon keskell[...]