# The kiss to the leper

Author: Mauriac, François, 1885-1970; Whitall, James, 1888-1954 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69443

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+kiss+to+the+leper+Mauriac&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

FRANÇOIS MAURIAC published his first book in 1909. It is a collection of poems, and bears the title, _Les Mains Jointes_. Mauriac was then twenty-one years old, and the little volume drew forth enthusiastic praise from Maurice Barrès in _L'Echo de Paris_. The following year brought his second book of verse, _L'Adieu à l'Adolescence_; and in 1913 and 1914 his first two novels appeared, _L'Enfant chargé de Chaînes_ and _La Robe Prétexte_. Soon after the war he had two more novels, _La Chair et le Sang_ and _Préséances_, to his credit, and in 1922 M. Grasset published _Le Baiser au Lépreux_ in his _Cahiers Verts_, that interesting series of little books which includes Hémon's _Maria Chapdela...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kiss-to-the-leper-69443/chapters/1/index.md)