France is one of the undying names in literature, his work filled with delicacy, elegance, and charm. In this work, France confines himself to themes of keen personal interest, the life of the world readers live in.
It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate, and given the power of life and death over the citizens of France. But his intense ...
A novel concerning fate, religion, and sensuality, set in Alexandria. Thais is a courtesan, enamored of Paphnuce, a hermit monk who is trying to convert her. Paphnuce is subconsciously obsessed with Thais. While Paphnuce successfully converts Thais and she becomes a female monk, he himself comes to realize his sensual love for her as a positive ...
CONTENTS Preface - Hamlet at the Comdie-Franaise - Serenus - The Reception of M. Lon Say at the French Academy - M. Alexandre Dumas, Moralist - The Young Girl of the Past and the Young Girl of the Present - M. Guy de Maupassant and the French Story-Tellers - Benjamin Constant's Journal - A Novel and a General Order: "Le Cavalier Miserey" - The ...
The comedy of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife was written, or at least begun, merely to entertain the members of the "Society of Rabelaisian Studies" at one of their meetings. But it succeeded so well that it was at once taken up by a regular theatre, the Porte-Saint-Martin, in the spring of 1912, and again at the Theatre de la Renaissance in the ...
1890. Translations by A.W. Evans, Lafcadio Hearn, and Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. Anatole France is the pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, French novelist, poet, critic and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. This volume contains three of his novels: Penguin Island, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and The Revolt of the Angels. ...
Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient ecclesiastical literary document that takes him from Paris to Sicily and then into his own life history.
1890. Translations by A.W. Evans, Lafcadio Hearn, and Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. Anatole France is the pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, French novelist, poet, critic and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. This volume contains three of his novels: Penguin Island, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and The Revolt of the Angels. ...
Described by Charles T. Wood, co-editor of Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, as "the classic skeptic's account, usually underrated on that account, but very solidly based in all the documents that it also has the virtue of quoting extensively. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure ...
Anatole France, de son nom exact Franois-Anatole Thibault, (1844-1924), n Paris, quai Malaquais, est un crivain franais. Il est considr comme l'un des plus grands crivains de la Troisime Rpublique dont il fut galement l'un des plus importants critiques littraires, et comme l'une des consciences les plus significatives de son temps, s'engageant en ...
This double volume contains two of the most representative novels of Anatole France. At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque, with its famous figure, the Abbe Jerome Coignard - priest, scholar, and vagabond - marked the full maturity of its author, and has always had the enthusiastic appreciation of British critics and readers. The Revolt of the Angels, ...
A novel of the Terror of 1793, "The Gods are Athirst" concerns Evariste Gamelin, a devotee of the Republic who metamorphosizes into a political fanatic over the course of the book. Once honorable, tolerant, and generous, Gamelin is swept along in the struggle to preserve the Republic, and eventually finds himself voting to execute his neighbor and ...
It may be fairly claimed that no great author has written about children with a more delicate and sympathetic insight than Anatole France, and in no section of his work are the grace and tenderness of his genius more winningly exhibited than in those exquisite vignettes in which, giving himself the name of Pierre NoziPre, he recalls the days of ...
Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the "Rue Notre-Dame des Champs." His father was a bookbinder and worked for the Religious Houses. Jean was a little weakling child, and his mother nursed him at her breast as she sewed the books, sheet by sheet, with the curved needle of the trade. One day as she was crossing the shop, humming a song, in the ...
The author left Sienna and never saw the Reverend Father Adone Doni since. He clings to his memory like a figure in a dream; and he has now put into writing the tales the Father told him on the road of Monte Oliveto.
France, whose real name was Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault, was born in Paris in 1844. He was a son of a bookseller who began to write novels. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1921.
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