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Penguin Island
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A fable based on the Dreyfus Affair, this satire spans history from the beginning of time to the future, and concerns a penguin society.
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The red lily
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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.
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Thaïs
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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 ...
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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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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.
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The Gods Will Have Blood
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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 ...
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Les dieux ont soif
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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 ...
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The revolt of the angels
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France, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, pens a story about ancient astronauts who were really alien creatures from a parallel dimension.
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The Gods Will Have Blood: 5
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At the sign of the Reine Pédauque
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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, ...
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The gods are athirst
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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 ...
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The Amethyst Ring
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A novel depicting the intrigues of a provincial town.
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On Life and Letters (Third Series)
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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 ...
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The gods are a-thirst
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Crainquebille
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Anatole France (1844-1924) -- born Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault -- was a French writer who achieved fame with the publications of his novels "The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard" (1881) and "Thas" (1890), also available in an edition from Wildside Press.
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The Queen Pedauque
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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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Mother of pearl
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CONTENTS The Procurator of Jud]a Amycus and Celestine The Legend of Saints Oliveria and Liberetta St. Euphrosine Scholastica Our Lady's Juggler The Mass of Shadows Leslie Wood Gestas The Manuscript of a Village Doctor Memoirs of a Volunteer Dawn Madame de Luzy The Boon of Death Bestowed A Tale of the Month of Floral in the Year II The Little ...
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The Well of Saint Clare
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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.
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Clio
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: A TRANSLATION BY WINIFRED STEPHENS LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORKs DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY MCMXXII Copyright, 1922, By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. TO EMILE ZOLA NOTE BY THE EDITORS The Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte is a translation of the text of a sumptuously illustrated volume de scriptive of ...
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L'île des pingouins
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The aspirations of Jean Servien
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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 ...
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A mummer's tale
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""'No need to pity her, ' he said. 'She will have all that she can wish; she will succeed; she will be wealthy. She is a selfish little jade, and a woman who is selfish can get anything she likes. But for people with hearts there's nothing left but to hang a stone round one's neck and throw oneself into the river. But, I too, I shall go far. I, ...
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Jocasta and The famished cat
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Jocasta & the Famished Cat by Anatole France. A Translation by Agnes Farley. NOTE When, in 1879. Monsieur France published Jocaste et Le Chat Maigre, his first work of fiction, it contained a preface comprising a d edicato ry letter addressed to Monsieur Charles Edmond and a story entitled Andre. The latter, when, in 1885, he put together his book ...
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Golden Tales of Anatole France
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Included in this volume are "The Procurator of Judaea," "Putois," A Good Lesson Well Learnt," "The Seven Wives of Bluebeard," "Our Lady's Juggler," "Balthasar," Olivier's Brag," "The Ocean Christ," and many more.
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The human tragedy
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Anatole France was a wonderful writer and a delicious satirist. Many of his works concern the divine, and his relationship with religion--sending up the church and Christian mythology was one of his favorite pursuits, as he does in this volume.
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Great Novels of Anatole France
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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. ...
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