Atala', published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine: a mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American chief. She saves the captured Chactas and tragically falls in love with
Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Aust
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time he came to write his extraordinary, highly entertaining memoirs, Chateaubriand had witnessed some of
