1933 Le Mystère Frontenac

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Leather Binding, Rebound

Bound in a half red morocco binding with marbled boards.

Le Mystère Frontenac, was first serialized in La Revue de Paris (Dec 1932-Feb 1933) before being published as a full novel. The narrative follows the Frontenac family in Bordeaux, from the Belle Époque to the approach of World War I.

François Mauriac wrote the book during a period of personal crisis following surgery for cancer of the pharynx. Convalescing and feeling “on borrowed time,” he infused the story with autobiographical elements, later describing it as his "mémoires imaginaires", imaginary memoirs.

François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French novelist, essayist, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952.