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.Contents: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
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.Contents: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