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  • No such reversals of fate await the protagonist of novelist Kurt Vonnegut's freshly conceived 1993 text for "L'Histoire" -- retitled "An American Soldier's Tale" and receiving its first recording on a Summit label CD (DCD 532) -- which tells the true, World War II-era story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.

    On CD: Another view of "L'Histoire" 2010

  • Entitled Histoire et représentation: Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque (1956), it questions the portrayal of the Shoah (with an all-too-often attendant kitschiness) by such world-renowned writers as William Styron and Heinrich Böll.

    Charlotte Wardi. 2009

  • I found the Goncourts in a frenzied (sic) admiration over a book entitled Histoire de ma vie by George Sand.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • Murder, a little French book called Histoire Générale des Larrons

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • I have begun another story entitled Histoire d'un coeur simple.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

  • I found the Goncourts in a frenzied (sic) admiration over a book entitled Histoire de ma vie by George Sand.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

  • I have undertaken a lengthy work [un ouvrage de longue haleine] entitled Histoire de ma Vie ...

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • And there will be a tirage Ó part of 200-300 copies entitled Histoire

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • I found the Goncourts in a frenzied (sic) admiration over a book entitled Histoire de ma vie by George Sand.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • I have begun another story entitled Histoire d'un coeur simple.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Gustave Flaubert 1850

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