
A young man returns home to a modest French village, where the weight of family honor and the quiet desperation of everyday life hang heavy in the air
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (508K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1913.
Credits
Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
Release date
2024-02-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1870–1963
A prolific French novelist and essayist, he wrote deeply about family, faith, and the pull of his native Savoy. His fiction was widely read in the early 20th century and earned him a long seat in the Académie française.
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