This new unabridged translation by Alix Daniel, illustrated with audacity by the London artist Anwot brings back to life André Maurois ' original fictional biography for the reader to follow the rebellious life of the great poet Percy Shelley from his schooling at Eton College to his complicated short adult life.
André Maurois was born in 1885 in Normandy, France. He was the son of Ernest Herzog a jewish textile manufacturer who had fled Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to take refuge in Elbeuf, Normandy. During World War I, he served as an interpreter. His first novel, The Silence of Colonel Bramble met immediate success in both France and England. He wrote the brilliant essay Kipling and his works from a French point of view. He is best known for his well documented biographies of Chateubriand, Disraeli, George Sand and others.
Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier, Aliette de Bodard, George Langelaan, Alain Doremieux, Nathalie Henneberg, Claude Seignolle, André Maurois, Maurice Renard, Mike Ashley