Anatole France
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First published in 1914, "The Revolt of the Angels" is one of the final works by celebrated French author and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France. Considered by many critics to be his most profound and significant work, it is the story of the angel Arcade who has grown tired of watching over a sinless Bishop. With nothing else to do, Arcade begins to read the books in the Bishop's library and soon rejects God and decides to live as a man instead. The...
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Signet classic volume CY425
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When a bumbling holy man mistakenly baptizes a colony of penguins, God endows the animals with souls and their formerly peaceful community declines into a maelstrom of violence and sin. This witty allegory lampoons French history from ancient to modern times, taking satirical swipes at socialists, royalists, industrialists, militarists, and even the Dreyfus affair, and concluding with a remarkably prescient view of the future. Indeed, more than a...
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"The Gods Are Athirst" (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. It is a fictional story set during the French Revolution. The story of the infernal rise of Évariste Gamelin, a young Parisian painter, involved in the section for his neighbourhood of Pont-Neuf, The Gods Are Athirst describes the dark years of the Reign of Terror in Paris, from Year II to Year...
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"La vie littéraire. Troisième série", de Anatole France. Publié par Good Press. Good Press publie un large éventail d'ouvrages, o sont inclus tous les genres littéraires. Les choix éditoriaux des éditions Good Press ne se limitent pas aux grands classiques, à la fiction et à la non-fiction littéraire. Ils englobent également les trésors, oubliés ou à découvrir, de la littérature mondiale. Nous publions les livres qu'il faut avoir...
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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard brought Anatole France immediate fame. The protagonist, a skeptical, elderly scholar, gets caught up in an adventure when he attempts to locate an ancient literary document. Faced with an impossible situation, he is forced to act outside of the law. This suspenseful tale was written with the grace and style for which France is well known.
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"La vie littéraire. Première série", de Anatole France. Publié par Good Press. Good Press publie un large éventail d'ouvrages, o sont inclus tous les genres littéraires. Les choix éditoriaux des éditions Good Press ne se limitent pas aux grands classiques, à la fiction et à la non-fiction littéraire. Ils englobent également les trésors, oubliés ou à découvrir, de la littérature mondiale. Nous publions les livres qu'il faut avoir lu....
7) Thaïs
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Extrait : "Telle était la vertu de ces religieux, qu'elle soumettait à son pouvoir jusqu'aux bêtes féroces..."
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Extrait: "Malgré la diversité apparente des amusements qui semblent m'attirer, ma vie n'a qu'un objet. Elle est tendue tout entière vers l'accomplissement d'un grand dessein. J'écris l'histoire des Pingouins. J'y travaille assidument, sans me laisser rebuter par des difficultés fréquentes et qui, parfois, semblent insurmontables."
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Romane:
Die Götter dürsten (Les dieux ont soif)
Die Rote Lilie (Le Lys Rouge)
Thais
Erzählungen:
Der fliegende Händler und mehrere andere nützliche Erzählungen:
Crainquebille
Putois
Riquet
Die Krawatte
Die großen Manöver von Montil
Der verkannte Patriot
Das doppelte Gesicht
Der Siegelring
Die Signora Chiara
Die rechtschaffenen Richter
Der Christ des Ozeans
Ein Traum
Sancta Justitia
Hausdiebstahl
Der kleine Schornsteinfeger oder Wohlangebrachte...
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Anatole France (1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility...
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When her true love is abducted by mysterious creatures, a girl must summon the strength to save him From the moment they met as young children, Bee and George have been bound together by a deep love. But when George goes off on a quest to a forbidden lake, home to dangerous water nymphs, it is up to Bee to rescue him. On her adventure she meets Loc, the king of the dwarfs, who proves to be more kind and generous than the humans she knows. Even as...
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Dans un phare, sur une île de l'Atlantique, des marins se racontent leurs péripéties passées pour tromper le temps...
Jeune gardien dans le phare de Cordouan, Paul doit supporter une longue et pénible convalescence à la suite d'un malencontreux accident. Ses compagnons, tous anciens marins, racontent à tour de rle leurs souvenirs de mer. Le Chasse-marée et ses combats navals sous l'Empire; la découverte des mers australes par le père La...
20) Thaïs
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Published in 1890, this historical novel, based on the life of Saint Thais of Egypt, inspired the opera by Massenet. Its focus is less on Thais-a courtesan who converted to Christianity-than on Paphnutius, a self-deluded hermit who abandons his ascetic life in order to save the seductress Thais's soul...or so he believes.