Jean-Christophe is the novel in ten volumes by Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.-Biography:...

 for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. It was translated into English by Gilbert Cannan.

The first four volumes are sometimes grouped as Jean-Christophe, the next three as Jean-Christophe à Paris, and the last three as La fin du voyage ("Journey's End").

1. L'Aube ("Dawn", 1904)
2. Le Matin ("Morning", 1904)
3. L'Adolescent ("Youth", 1904)
4. La Révolte ("Revolt", 1905)
5. La Foire sur la place ("The Marketplace", 1908)
6. Antoinette (1908)
7. Dans la maison ("The House", 1908)
8. Les Amies ("Love and Friendship", 1910)
9. Le Buisson ardent ("The Burning Bush", 1911)
10. La Nouvelle Journée ("The New Dawn", 1912)

The English translations appeared between 1911 and 1913.
The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from cradle to grave.