Word: dargan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ANATOLE FRANCE-Edwin Preston Dargan-Oxford University Press...
...contemporary writing about him has reflected this opinion. With the possible exception of Proust the most-written-about French writer of the last century, Anatole France has not yet been the subject of a definitive English biography. Why biographers have been scared away may be surmised by reading Author Dargan's volume, a 729-pager which took ten years to write and covers only 52 of France's 80 years. Author Dargan, Professor of French Literature at the University of Chicago, excuses himself from covering the last 28 years by saying that the facts are too hard...
France's own accounts of his childhood should not be taken too literally, warns Author Dargan. Only child of a famed Paris bookseller who rose from an illiterate peasant, little Anatole arrived at his first opinions by taking the opposite side from his father, one of whose opinions was that his son would never amount to much. His mother, who tucked him into bed until his marriage at 33, was the first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious...
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