Chevalier, Haakon 1902-1985

André Malraux an age of oppression (Le Temps du mépris) by André Malraux ( Book )
8 editions published in 1936 in English and held by 1,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The book is about a Communist prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. The prisoner escapes and has a struggle with terror and insanity. He endures with courage and tries to create a life with a purpose."--Amazon

Oppenheimer : the story of a friendship by Haakon Chevalier ( Book )
17 editions published between 1965 and 1966 in 3 languages and held by 850 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Impressions, based on a friendship of seventeen years, of the life and personality of the atomic scientist, including his later involvement in security investigations by U.S. Government authorities

La condition humaine by André Malraux ( Book )
14 editions published between 1934 and 2009 in English and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tale of two very eventful days in March, 1927, fictionalizing the lives and events of the Communist insurrection in China. The author participated in these events giving his narrative particular vividness

Holy Week, a novel by Aragon ( Book )
6 editions published between 1961 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The book covers the week of 19 to 26 March 1815, when Napoleon Bonaparte, after escaping from captivity on the island of Elba, sought to regain power from the French King Louis XVIII. The main character in the novel, the painter Théodore Géricault, who has renounced his artistic career for a military one, accompanies the king on his flight from Paris, but as the king continues to flee across the frontier into Belgium, Géricault begins to have doubts about his own loyalties and the implications of his potential choices

The secret life of Salvador Dalí by Salvador Dalí ( Book )
29 editions published between 1942 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 522 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This early autobiography, which takes Dalí through his late thirties, is as startling and unpredictable as his art. On its first publication, the reviewer of Books observed: "It is impossible not to admire this painter as writer ... (Dalí) succeeds in doing exactly what he sets out to do ... communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself he sets out to portray." Superbly illustrated with over eighty photographs of Dalí and his works, and scores of Dalí drawings and sketches

Seven faces of love by André Maurois ( Book )
8 editions published between 1943 and 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 500 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The devil's share by Denis de Rougemont ( Book )
17 editions published between 1944 and 1973 in English and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

50 secrets of magic craftsmanship by Salvador Dalí ( Book )
3 editions published between 1948 and 1992 in English and held by 429 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents an unabridged republication of Salvador Dali's 1948 text in which the surrealist artist offers his ideas on painting, expresses his thoughts on the work of other artists, and shares fifty "secrets" for mastering the art of painting

The man who would be God by Haakon Chevalier ( Book )
18 editions published between 1959 and 1966 in English and Czech and held by 343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Famous American physicist sacrifices everything - his health, family and friends - to his determination that the atomic bomb be built and used

Army of shadows by Joseph Kessel ( Book )
6 editions published between 1944 and 1945 in English and held by 286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide