Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
| Full title | Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (Mémoires d'outre-tombe) |
|---|---|
| Author | François-René de Chateaubriand |
| Published | 1849 |
| Pages | 550 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Chateaubriand’s memoirs, written across forty years and published only after his death — the ancien régime, the Revolution, exile in London, Napoleon and the Restoration — a first-hand account of the end of one world and the start of another by one of the great French prose writers. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the thread answering “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
- Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — posted as an answer. See The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023).
About this edition
Published posthumously, 1849–1850. The page count is an English selected edition; the complete work runs to several volumes.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.