“Seldom, if ever, has a tale given me so genuine a surprise or such an unexpectedly creepy sensation.” --_Punch._
“As a story, it is one of the most enthralling I have read for a long time.... Six--seven o’clock struck--half-past-seven--and yet this extraordinary narrative of a woman’s life held me absolutely enthralled.... I forgot the weather; I forgot my own grievances; I forgot everything, in fact, under the spell of this wonderful book.... In fact the whole book bears the stamp of reality from cover to cover. There is hardly a false or strained note in it. It is the ruthless study of a woman’s life.... If it is not the novel of the season, the season is not likely to give us anything much better.”--_The Tatler._
I. Dawn and Morning. II. Storm and Stress. III. John Christopher in Paris IV. The Journey’s End
Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. Author of “Little Brother,” etc.
“To most readers he will be a revelation, a new interest in their lives. Take the book up where you will, and you feel interested at once. You can read it and re-read it. It never wearies nor grows irritating.” --_The Daily Telegraph._
“His English exercises so easy an effect that the reader has never for an instant the irritating sense of missing beauties through the inadequacies of a borrowed language; we have also compared it in many cases with the original and found it remarkably accurate. Readers may then be assured that they will lose but little of Mr. Rolland’s beauty and wisdom, even though they are unable to read him in the original, and Mr. Cannan is to be warmly congratulated.” --_The Standard._
“A noble piece of work, which must, without any doubt whatever, ultimately receive the praise and attention which it so undoubtedly merits.... There is hardly a single book more illustrative, more informing and more inspiring ... than M. Romain Rolland’s creative work, ‘John Christopher’.” --_The Daily Telegraph._
“By the genius of Dostoevsky you are always in the presence of living, passionate characters. They are not puppets, they are not acting to keep the plot in motion. They are men and women--I should say you can hear them breathe--irresistibly moving to their appointed ends.”--_Evening News._