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 Dawn
2. The Soul Enchanted:
- Annette and Sylvie;
- Summer
3. Other Fiction:
- Colas Breugnon;
- Clerambault;
- Pierre and Luce
4. The Plays:
- Georges Danton;
- The Fourteenth of July
5. 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
