Études anglaises

Published by Grasset in 1927, this volume belongs to the period when Maurois, already an established novelist and essayist, was building his authority as a biographer and European critic. It anticipates the great literary portraits that would make his reputation, notably those of Shelley, Byron, Disraeli, Dickens and Chateaubriand.

This collection of essays turns, once again and quite naturally, to the English spirit. From his very first books, the author of Les Silences du colonel Bramble — a former liaison officer between France and Great Britain — established himself as one of the finest French interpreters of the British world, whose language, manners, humor, institutions and literature he knew intimately.

A fine, well-bound copy.