My Father's Glory & My Mother' Castle

by Marcel Pagnol

Two books in one volume of Pagnol's childhood memoirs. The stories evoke the sun-baked Provencal countryside and show the young Marcel spending happy hours following in his father's and uncle's footsteps fishing and trapping during the long summer months.

Genres: France, Memoir, Biography, Classics, Nonfiction, French Literature, Biography Memoir

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1957

About the author

Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française.