The Collected Works of Romain Rolland. Illustrated Jean-Christophe, Colas Breugnon, Pierre and Luce and others

Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud.Rolland's most famous novel is the 10-volume novel sequence Jean-Christophe. His other novels are Colas Breugnon, Clérambault, Pierre et Luce and his second roman-fleuve, the 7-volume The Enchanted Soul.Contents: 1. Jean-Christophe: - Dawn;- Morning;- Youth;- Revolt;- The Marketplace;- Antoinette;- The House;- Love and Friendship;- The Burning Bush;- The New Dawn2. The Soul Enchanted: - Annette and Sylvie;- Summer3. Other Fiction: - Colas Breugnon;- Clerambault;- Pierre and Luce4. The Plays: - Georges Danton;- The Fourteenth of July5. The Non-Fiction: - Francois-Millet;- Beethoven;- Life of Michelangelo;- Musicians of To-Day;- Musicians of Former Days;- Handel;- Tolstoy;- The Forerunners;- A Musical Tour through the Land of the Past;- Mahatma Gandhi