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 ...

The novel's influence can be seen in later works by writers such as Victor Hugo and Lord Byron.

Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century.

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 ...

Despite the estimation of Cardinal de Bausset, formerly Bishop of Alais, that Chateaubriand was "...the first and only traveller who has no need of etchings and drawings to bring places and monuments which recall beautiful memories and ...

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.