Lust for Life [Paperback]

“A story of excruciating power.”—The New York Times
 
The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh
 
Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’sLust for Lifehas been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie.
 
The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh—brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest prostitutes, and his paintings—for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a coal mine in southern Belgium to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic, and triumphant at once. No other novel of a great man’s life has so fascinated the American public for generations.Lust for LifePrologue - London
1. L'ange aux poupons
2. Goupil and Company
3. In its own image, love creates love
4. Let's forget it, shall we?
5. The Van Goghs
6. Why, you're nothing but a country boor!
7. Ramsgate and Isleworth

Book One - The Borinage
1. Amsterdam
2. Kay
3. A stuffy, provincial clergyman
4. Latin and Greek
5. Mendes da Costa
6. Where lies the greater strength?
7. Evangelical school
8. The Blackjaws
9. A miner's hut
10. Success!
11. Terril
12. Marcasse
13. A lesson in economics
14. Fragile
15. Black Egypt
16. Exit God
17. Bankruptcy
18. An incident of little importance
19. As one artist to another
20. Enter Theo
21. The old mill at Ryswyk

Book Two - Etten
1. There's a living in that!
2. Fou
3. The student
4. Mijnheer Tersteeg
5. AntolE