The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France ...

The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France ... PDF Author: Anatole France
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The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France ...

The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France ... PDF Author: Anatole France
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Languages : en
Pages : 976

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The Life of Joan of Arc

The Life of Joan of Arc PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher: London : J. Lane
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Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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The Procurator of Judea

The Procurator of Judea PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Procurator of Judea" by Anatole France. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Garden of Epicurus

The Garden of Epicurus PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher:
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Category : French essays
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Anatole France

Anatole France PDF Author: Murray Sachs
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Bee

Bee PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher:
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Techniques of irony in Anatole France

Techniques of irony in Anatole France PDF Author: Diane Wolfe Levy
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Through her close reading, Diane Wolfe Levy reveals the complex irony in France's last volume of short stories Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. The author shows how France imbues his narration with paradoxical elements, contrasts full of irony, and complex oppositions. She also reveals the way irony is directed to both the narrator and the fictional characters. This contradictory nature reveals the lack of objectivity that the prevalent scientific method is supposed to have. Levy exemplifies the irony in its multiplicity, connecting it to the author, the reader, the narrator, and the subject of the tales.

Thaïs

Thaïs PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726607972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Lost to the desiccated desert of 4th century Egypt, reclusive hermit Paphunce reflects on his sinful life. Determined to become closer to God, Paphunce resolves to bring God his childhood infatuation, the beautiful actress Thaïs. On his godly mission, Paphunce ventures out across the desperate landscape and dons a disguise to reach Thaïs. However, in his attempts to help her reach salvation, Paphunce may find himself eternally lost to damnation. As beautifully written as it is profoundly philosophical, ‘Thaïs’, a fictionalised retelling of the life of fabled Christian convert Saint Thaïs of Egypt, seeks to question the superficial virtuousness of religion. For any fans of Martin Scorcese’s ‘Silence’, ‘Thaïs’ is an enthralling story that asks similarly important questions about the nature of faith and is a riveting read that belongs on everyone’s bookshelf. François-Anatole Thibault (1844 – 1924), better known as Anatole France, was a French journalist, poet, novelist, and Nobel laureate for literature. Spending much of his early life in his father's bookshop, France quickly rose to prominence as a respected author of over 25 works. A French classicist writer with a style reminiscent of Voltaire and Fénélon, France's work has a strong preoccupation with scepticism and hedonism. He is best remembered for his classic French novels ‘La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque’ (1893) and ‘Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard’ (1881). France's works have had a historic legacy, and he is recognised today as one of France’s most prominent authors.

On Life and Letters

On Life and Letters PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher:
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Balthasar and Other Works

Balthasar and Other Works PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465604774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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She led Balthasar to one of the taverns where wastrels and street porters foregathered along with prostitutes. The two sat down at a table and saw through the foul air by the light of a fetid lamp, unclean human brutes attack each other with fists and knives for a woman or a cup of fermented liquor, while others with clenched fists snored under the tables. The tavern-keeper, lying on a pile of sacking, watched the drunken brawlers with a prudent eye. Balkis, having seen some salt fish hanging from the rafters of the ceiling, said to her companion: "I much wish to eat one of these fish with pounded onions." Balthasar gave the order. When she had eaten he discovered that he had forgotten to bring money. It gave him no concern, for he thought that he could slip out with her without paying the reckoning. But the tavern-keeper barred their way, calling them a vile slave and a worthless she-ass. Balthasar struck him to the ground with a blow of his fist. Whereupon some of the drinkers drew their knives and flung themselves on the two strangers. But the black man, seizing an enormous pestle used to pound Egyptian onions, knocked down two of his assailants and forced the others back. And all the while he was conscious of the warmth of Balkis' body as she cowered close against him; it was this which made him invincible. The tavern-keeper's friends, not daring to approach again, flung at him from the end of the pot-house jars of oil, pewter vessels, burning lamps, and even the huge bronze cauldron in which a whole sheep was stewing. This cauldron fell with a horrible crash on Balthasar's head and split his skull. For a moment he stood as if dazed, and then summoning all his strength he flung the cauldron back with such force that its weight was increased tenfold. The shock of the hurtling metal was mingled with indescribable roars and death rattles. Profiting by the terror of the survivors, and fearing that Balkis might be injured, he seized her in his arms and fled with her through the silence and darkness of the lonely byways. The stillness of night enveloped the earth, and the fugitives heard the clamour of the women and the carousers, who pursued them at haphazard, die away in the darkness. Soon they heard nothing more than the sound of dripping blood as it fell from the brow of Balthasar on the breast of Balkis.