Romain Rolland

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Books by Romain Rolland

Jean-Christophe on A Thousand and One Nights: “Have you read the Arabian Night in which a genii, as tall as a mountain, is imprisoned in a bottle sealed with the seal of Solomon?”
Jean-Christophe on Les Misérables: “Her eyes were worn out with copying out at night ... Les Misérables of Hugo.”
Jean-Christophe on Childhood: “he read him Tolstoy's Memories of Childhood.”
Clérambault on De la Constance et Consolation ès Calamités Publiques: “Guillaume Du Vair wrote his noble Dialogues, 'De la Constance et Consolation ès Calamités Publiques,' with a steadfast mind.”
Clérambault on Le Contr'Un: “This somewhat ironical name was suggested--with a difference--by La Boëtie's Le Contr' Un.”
Clérambault on De Viris Illustribus: “the reverence they had for the great slogans of the past: ... 'Plutarch,' 'De Viris,' 'Horace.'”