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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 revoluti...
The Human Spirit in His Quest for Knowledge“I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe; I knew that all tha...
Penguin Island in all its peculiar glory: this is the tale of the enchanted island island where the nearsighted Abbot Mael baptised penguins in error. These penguins posessed of Divine Grace by dint of baptism are remarkably like and unlike men; t...
When presently the sun had slipped behind the mountains, the man of God arose from his knees and took the path to the Monastery. On the white, silent road thither, he met a beggar, who asked him for alms for the love of God. "Alas!" he told him, "...
I left Sienna towards the middle of June and I have never seen the Reverend Father Adone Doni since. He clings to my memory like a figure in a dream; and I have now put into writing the tales he told me on the road of Monte Oliveto. They will be f...
FANCHON went early one morning, like Little Red Riding-Hood, to see her grandmother, who lives right at the other end of the village. But Fanchon did not stop like little Red Riding-Hood, to gather nuts in the wood. She went straight on her way and s...
A novel that primarily concerns the adventures of a street vendor who, old and homeless, accidentally insults a police officer and winds up in jail. He then deliberately insults another police officer in an attempt to return to jail, where he had bee...
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 scene was an actress's dressing-room at the Odéon. Félicie Nanteuil, her hair powdered, with blue on her eyelids, rouge on her cheeks and ears, and white on her neck and shoulders, was holding out her foot to Madame Michon, the dresser, who was...
CONTENTS The Procurator of Judæa 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 Mad...
The son of a bookseller, Jacques Anatole François Thibault (1844-1924) spent most of his life around books. His father's bookstore was called the Librairie de France, and from this name he took his nom-de plume, Anatole France....
Anatole France (1844-1924) -- born Jacques Anatole François Thibault -- was a French writer who achieved fame with the publications of his novels "The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard" (1881) and "Thaïs" (1890), also available in an edition from Wildside...
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....
At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque is his most celebrated novel; a vast tableau of life in 18th century France. The central figure of the novel, the Abbe Coignard, a complex, ironical and lovable character, reappears in Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard...
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Anatole France spent his childhood around his father's bookstore in France. As an adult he became a librarian and author. France received a prize from the French Academy for his novel The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881). In 1901, France wrote about...
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Anatole France (Francois-Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist, a member of the Academie Francaise, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Here, France claims to be but the editor of the notations of the opin...
In those days Balthasar, whom the Greeks called Saracin, reigned in Ethiopia. He was black, but comely of countenance. He had a simple soul and a generous heart The third year of his reign, which was the twenty-second of his age, he left his dominion...
First, in the trial which resulted in her condemnation the historian has a mine of rich treasure. Her cross-examination cannot be too minutely studied. It is based on information, not preserved elsewhere, gathered from Domremy and the various parts o...
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Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, 'The Gods Want Blood' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a young painter who becomes a juror on a local Revolutionary tribunal. Caught up in the bloodthirsty mad...
" ...]Pascal, which threw a new light on the spirit of the seventeenth century. Nor must we forget the Hebrew Bibles, the Talmuds, the Rabbinical treatises, printed and in manuscript, the Aramaic and Samaritan texts, on sheepskin and on tablets of sy...
Anatole France (1844-1924), born Francois-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He studied at the College Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a cataloguer at...
Anatole France born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 - 12 October 1924 was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member...
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Anatole France (1844-1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He studied at the Collège Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a cataloguer ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
Anatole France (1844-1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He studied at the Collège Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a...
Anatole France (1844-1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He studied at the Collège Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a...
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In this 1894 love story, an egotistical woman seeks to rearrange her domestic situation in such a way as to replace a man she merely likes with one she deeply loves. The result is tragedy....
Thais is a famous novella published in 1890 by Anatole France. The story is based on the life of Saint Thais of Egypt. This edition includes a table of contents....