The Collected Works of Romain Rolland. Illustrated

Book excerpt: Romain Rolland) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings". He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud. Rolland's most famous novel is the 10-volume novel sequence Jean-Christophe. His other novels are Colas Breugnon, Clérambault, Pierre et Luce and his second roman-fleuve, the 7-volume The Enchanted Soul. 1. Jean-Christophe: - Dawn; - Morning; - Youth; - Revolt; - The Marketplace; - Antoinette; - The House; - Love and Friendship; - The Burning Bush; - The New Dawn 2. The Soul Enchanted: - Annette and Sylvie; - Summer 3. Other Fiction: - Colas Breugnon; - Clerambault; - Pierre and Luce 4. The Plays: - Georges Danton; - The Fourteenth of July 5. The Non-Fiction: - Francois-Millet; - Beethoven; - Life of Michelangelo; - Musicians of To-Day; - Musicians of Former Days; - Handel; - Tolstoy; - The Forerunners; - A Musical Tour through the Land of the Past; - Mahatma Gandhi