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Hergé : the man who created Tintin / Pierre Assouline ; translated by Charles Ruas.
Van Pelt Library PN6790.B43 H47264 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Assouline, Pierre.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Hergé, 1907-1983.
- Hergé.
- Cartoonists--Belgium--Biography.
- Cartoonists.
- Belgium.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- A life in gray: 1907-1925
- Scoutmaster in the twentieth century: 1925-1929
- The many births of Tintin: 1929-1934
- What Chang taught Hergé: 1934-1936
- Eye of the storm: 1936-1940
- The golden age: 1940-1944
- The plight of the Inciviques: 1944-1946
- The dark years: 1946-1950
- Toward fulfillment: 1950-1958
- The demon of purity: 1958-1960
- Finishing touches: 1960-1973
- The end of a life, the culmination of his work: 1973-1983.
- Notes:
- This first English-language edition retains the core but not the totality of the original French edition.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195397598
- 0195397592
- OCLC:
- 319494893
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