Driven out of Germany, the young composer Jean-Christophe arrives in Paris and finds its musical and literary world a market-place of fashion and intrigue. The middle book tells the separate, moving story of Antoinette, who sacrifices herself for her brother Olivier, and the last shows Christophe and Olivier in friendship among the neighbours of a Paris apartment house.
The central volume of the novel cycle that helped win Rolland the Nobel Prize, and companion to Journey’s End. Download the free EPUB.