Call No Man Happy
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
André Maurois, one of France's most celebrated literary figures, presents in Call No Man Happy a sweeping memoir that traces the arc of a remarkable life lived at the intersection of two world wars, transatlantic culture, and the great literary movements of the twentieth century. Translated from the French by Denver and Jane Lindley, this richly observed autobiography chronicles Maurois's journey from his bourgeois Norman upbringing through his experiences as a British Army liaison officer in World War One, his rise to international literary fame, and his years of wartime exile in America — painting a vivid portrait of an era defined by upheaval and intellectual brilliance. The memoir illuminates Maurois's singular gift for weaving personal narrative with broader historical and philosophical reflection, a quality that distinguished his celebrated biographies of Shelley, Disraeli, Byron, and Victor Hugo. With elegant, measured prose, he argues that happiness is never a fixed destination but a fleeting condition, glimpsed only in retrospect — a thesis that gives the work its haunting, aphoristic title drawn from the ancient wisdom of Solon. Readers who savour the company of a great and humane mind, one that counted Proust, Churchill, and Roosevelt among its acquaintances, will find this memoir an irresistible and deeply affecting testament to a life fully examined.
Author: André Maurois
Format: Hardback
Published: 1943, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
André Maurois, one of France's most celebrated literary figures, presents in Call No Man Happy a sweeping memoir that traces the arc of a remarkable life lived at the intersection of two world wars, transatlantic culture, and the great literary movements of the twentieth century. Translated from the French by Denver and Jane Lindley, this richly observed autobiography chronicles Maurois's journey from his bourgeois Norman upbringing through his experiences as a British Army liaison officer in World War One, his rise to international literary fame, and his years of wartime exile in America — painting a vivid portrait of an era defined by upheaval and intellectual brilliance. The memoir illuminates Maurois's singular gift for weaving personal narrative with broader historical and philosophical reflection, a quality that distinguished his celebrated biographies of Shelley, Disraeli, Byron, and Victor Hugo. With elegant, measured prose, he argues that happiness is never a fixed destination but a fleeting condition, glimpsed only in retrospect — a thesis that gives the work its haunting, aphoristic title drawn from the ancient wisdom of Solon. Readers who savour the company of a great and humane mind, one that counted Proust, Churchill, and Roosevelt among its acquaintances, will find this memoir an irresistible and deeply affecting testament to a life fully examined.