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Translation copyright © 2018 by Alex Andriesse

Introduction copyright © 2018 by Anka Muhlstein

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Cover image: Anonymous, The Niagara Falls at Moonlight, c. 1900; collection Marc Walter; Adoc-photos / Art Resource, NY

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768–1848 author. | Andriesse, Alex translator.

Title: Memoirs from beyond the grave : 1768–1800 / by François-René de Chateaubriand ; introduction by Anka Muhlstein ; translation by Alex Andriesse.

Description: New York : New York Review Books, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017025073 (print) | LCCN 2017028760 (ebook) | ISBN 9781681371306 (epub) | ISBN 9781681371290 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: France—History—Consulate and First Empire, 1799–1815. | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821—Contemporaries.

Classification: LCC DC255.C4 (ebook) | LCC DC255.C4 A3 2017 (print) | DDC 944.04—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025073

ISBN 978-1-68137-130-6

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