In this new edition (the first unabridged translation of any portion of the Memoirs to be published in more than a century), Chateaubriand emerges as a writer of great wit and clarity, a self-deprecating egoist whose meditations on the ...
Selections spanning the years 1768 to 1841, include memorable character sketches of contemporary personalities, notably Napoleon and Washington, descriptions of travel in Europe and America and eye-witness accounts of important historical ...
Chateaubriand's Travels in America, presented here in its first modern translation, was a reflection of the attitudes of his epoch toward the New World.