{"product_id":"2026200015064-secondhand-chateaubriand-a-biography-volume-one-the-longed-for-tempests","title":"Chateaubriand: A Biography, Volume One: The Longed-For Tempests","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrançois-René de Chateaubriand — soldier, exile, diplomat, and one of the founding fathers of French Romanticism — lived a life so turbulent and grand that it demanded a biographer of equal stature to chronicle it. In this first volume of his monumental work, George D. Painter traces Chateaubriand's formative years, from a brooding, storm-haunted childhood in the windswept towers of Combourg to the revolutionary fires that consumed the old aristocratic world he was born into, illuminating how a restless young Breton nobleman forged himself into one of the nineteenth century's most towering literary and political figures. Painter presents the young Chateaubriand's wanderings — his flight to America, his return to a France in revolutionary convulsion, and his harrowing years of emigration in England — as the crucible in which the visionary author of Atala and René was born.\n\nPainter, celebrated for his landmark two-volume biography of Marcel Proust, brings the same extraordinary scholarship and novelistic precision to this work, situating Chateaubriand's inner turbulence against the vast canvas of a Europe in upheaval. The biography is as much a portrait of an age — of revolution, exile, and the birth of Romantic sensibility — as it is an intimate study of one man's singular genius. Rich with archival research and suffused with Painter's own elegant prose style, Chateaubriand: A Biography stands as a landmark of literary life-writing that leaves the reader hungry to follow its subject into the storms still to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203184206043,"sku":"2026200015064-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/87f897d5-88d1-43d5-a926-79c109721e34.png?v=1788145107","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015064-secondhand-chateaubriand-a-biography-volume-one-the-longed-for-tempests","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}