Spirit and deed

First printing

Spirit and deed. French 1780–1930 is the title of a collection of biographical essays that Heinrich Mann published in 1931 at Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag Berlin.

It contains articles on Choderlos de Laclos (first published in 1905), Stendhal , Victor Hugo (first in 1925), Gustave Flaubert and George Sand (first in 1905), Émile Zola (first in 1915), Anatole France (first in 1924) and Philippe Soupault (first 1928).

The Zola essay played a major role in his falling out with younger brother Thomas Mann during the First World War , which lasted until 1922.

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Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Berlin 1931; Weimar 1946; Leipzig and Weimar 1980, Gustav Kiepenheuer library.
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 1961, dtv (Volume 100).
Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1981, Suhrkamp Library (Volume 732).
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1997, study edition in individual volumes, Fischer Taschenbuch (volume 12860).