Jean-Christophe: Complete in One Volume (Modern Library Giant #G38.1)
by ROLLAND, Romain
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- Hardcover
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- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
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Jean-Christophe is a novel sequence, written in the "bildungsroman" fashion, in ten volumes by Romain Rolland published between 1904 and 1912, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. It was translated into English by Gilbert Cannan. The first four volumes are sometimes grouped as Jean-Christophe, the next three as Jean-Christophe à Paris, and the last three as La fin du voyage ("Journey's End").
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- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88244
- Title
- Jean-Christophe: Complete in One Volume (Modern Library Giant #G38.1)
- Author
- ROLLAND, Romain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1957]
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