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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.

André Maurois is very famous writer in Russia. Many of his books are translated to Russian.

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 oft ...more

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4.15 avg rating — 2,129 ratings — published 1928 — 65 editions
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Письма незнакомке
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Fattypuffs and Thinifers
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Lelia: The Life of George Sand
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وجوه الحب السبعة
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4.16 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1930 — 24 editions
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Ariel or the Life of Shelley
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Istoria Angliei
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Quotes by André Maurois

“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.”
― André Maurois
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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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