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André Maurois


Born
in Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, France
July 26, 1885

Died
October 09, 1967

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Romance


André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, was a French author. André Maurois was a pseudonym that became his legal name in 1947.

During World War I he joined the French army and served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer to the British army. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty but socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. It was translated and also became popular in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries as The Silence of Colonel Bramble. Many of his other works have also been translated into English (mainly by Hamish Miles (1894–1937)), as they often dealt with British people or topics, such as his biographies of Disraeli, Byron, and She ...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 45,247 ratings · 3,156 reviews · 1,084 distinct works • Similar authors
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4.17 avg rating — 3,352 ratings — published 1928 — 4 editions
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Письма незнакомке
4.18 avg rating — 1,438 ratings — published 1956 — 24 editions
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Fattypuffs and Thinifers
4.12 avg rating — 688 ratings — published 1930 — 39 editions
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Фиалки по средам
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September Roses
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Istoria Angliei
4.24 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1937 — 52 editions
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Disraeli: A Picture of the ...
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An Art of Living
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Byron
4.22 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 1930 — 60 editions
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Ariel or the Life of Shelle...
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“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
― Andre Maurois
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“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
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“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
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