Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort the Nobel Laureate and his unfinished creation Benjamin Franklin Martin

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of Andre...

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Main Author: Martin, Benjamin Franklin (Author)
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Language:English
Published: DeKalb, IL NIU Press [2017]
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