Marguerite Yourcenar

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Author	: Josyane Savigneau
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 578
Release	: 1993-10
ISBN-10	: 0226735443
ISBN-13	: 9780226735443
Rating	: 4/5 (43 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Marguerite Yourcenar by : Josyane Savigneau

Book excerpt: One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.

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Language: en
Pages: 578

Marguerite Yourcenar

Authors: Josyane Savigneau

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary

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Pages: 386

The Abyss

Authors: Marguerite Yourcenar

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 1981-08 - Publisher: Macmillan

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The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a

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Pages: 162

Oriental Tales

Authors: Marguerite Yourcenar

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-10 - Publisher: Macmillan

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This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of t

Language: en
Pages: 242

That Mighty Sculptor, Time

Authors: Marguerite Yourcenar

Categories: Literary Collections

Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-05 - Publisher: Macmillan

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This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japan

Language: en
Pages: 256

Two Lives and a Dream

Authors: Marguerite Yourcenar

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-11-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanaël—innocent, open to experience—born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lov