A Life of Chekhov
The publication of this book in 1946, four years after the author’s death, was made possible thanks to her daughters’ efforts to preserve her manuscripts. The depth of the book is striking. It draws...
NEMIROVSKY, Irene
Dimanche and other stories
Compilation of fifteen stories (the first one is entitled Dimanche) published in various French magazines before the Second World War. The subject matter is diverse, although family references are repeated...
The Fires of Autumn
Fire in the Blood is a book finished shortly before the deportation and death of the author, and has been edited and published posthumous in 1957. Two versions of the novel with substantial differences are...
All Our Worldly Goods
Pierre Hardelot, the heir of a paper company by the same name, has a chubby fianceé selected by his family, but he really is in love with someone else, a girl who will never be aprroved by the family,...
Suite Française
Suite Française begins in Paris on the eve of the German invasion, in a climate of uncertainty and incredulity. All of a sudden, after the first air raids, thousands of families throng the roads....