André Maurois; Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way? ...
The Country of Thirty Six Thousand Whistles, (a 1930s book by Andre Maurois for anyone who enjoys blowing their own horn but can't find an appreciative audience). The Enchanted Typewriter. (An 1899 tale of classic communication, ...
See The Human Comedy (with introductions by G. Saintsbury, 40 vol., 1895?98); Balzac's Letters to His Family, 1809?1850 (ed. by W. S. Hastings, 1934); biographies by H. J. Hunt (1957, repr. 1969), A. Maurois (1966, repr. 1983), and G. Robb (1994); .... Balzac was the first to present the struggle for property and inheritance and the history of an estate, a store, or an invention not as an adjunct to the story but rather as its main theme. Balzac presented a history of ...
