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Does ones fondness for Julien Sorel depart just about the time one ceasses to be able to remember new phone numbers?īut for those who have completed Proust, Anhony Powell, CP Snow, all of Maigret, the Robertson Davies novel series and the Lucia books, not to mention the Leatherstocking tales - Men of Good Will awaits you.more Perhaps it is just right for a man in his late forties, but not after. Recently it occurred to me that I could complete the series looking online, and indeed I ddi - with impressive Red/Black bindings (rather like the red/black on a Grecian Urn, as drawn by Rockwell Kent, and some o fthem with the ragged reddish silver dustjackets Knopf originally supplied.īut I found I could not face reading the remaining volumes. I found it in the stacks of the New York Society Library in the 90s - read the volummes there and found some others in the Bryn Mawr books store on e 79.
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It is stately, exciting, sometimes difficult to follow - it is filled with Stendhalian young men and complicated plots between the French Gaullist clergy and their enemies in the Vatican, battles between intellectuals of various kinds, and other Balzacian details too numerous to remember. It is stately, exciting, sometimes difficult to follow - it is filled with Stendhalian young men and complicated plots between the French Gaullist clergy and their enemies in the Vatican, battles between intellectuals of various kinds, and other Balzacian details too numerous This is just one volume of perhaps 14 in the grand series of novels by the interwar French Nobel Prize winner covering the years leading up to WWI - with the battle of Verdun as its climax - and away from it into the 20s. This is just one volume of perhaps 14 in the grand series of novels by the interwar French Nobel Prize winner covering the years leading up to WWI - with the battle of Verdun as its climax - and away from it into the 20s. Six months late, after 400,000 French lay dead and wounded, and as many German, the assault was abandoned and in October the French recaptured the forts and territory they had lost earlier.more They chose Verdun, a small fortress that had been of strategic importance to France for hundreds of years. The German High Command believed in a strategy of attrition and felt that Germany could, by choosing a point of attack which the French felt they would have to defend at all costs, bleed France to death. They chose Verdun, a small fortress that February 1916 saw the opening stages of one of the most fearful battles of the World War I, at Verdun, between France and Germany. Charges may be applicable.Ĭhildren and extra bed policy : Children are not allowed.February 1916 saw the opening stages of one of the most fearful battles of the World War I, at Verdun, between France and Germany.
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