Anatole France: 358 books

ANATOLE FRANCE, pseudonyme de Jacques Anatole-François Thibault (1844-1924) écrivain, journaliste et éditeur. Né au sein d´une famille modeste, son père tenait une librairie quai Malaquais spécialisée dans les ouvrages sur la Révolution...

According to Wikipedia: "Anatole France (16 April 1844—12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault,[1] 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...

ANATOLE FRANCE, pseudonyme de Jacques Anatole-François Thibault (1844-1924) écrivain, journaliste et éditeur. Né au sein d´une famille modeste, son père tenait une librairie quai Malaquais spécialisée dans les ouvrages sur la Révolution...

Sur la voie glorieuse est un essai sur la guerre 14-18 de l'écrivain français Anatole France (1844 – 1924). Ce livre se veut une critique sociale inscrite en plein dans la Première Guerre mondiale. Il est dédié à la mémoire de Jean-Pierre Barbier, mort au champ d'honneur le 26 décembre...

Nel romanzo di Anatole France Gli dei hanno sete, ambientato durante la rivoluzione, uno dei personaggi, Brotteaux, modello di filosofo epicureo e alter-ego dell’autore, si esprime in questi termini: “Io ho amore per la ragione, ma non ne ho per il fanatismo. La ragione ci guida e ci illumina,...

ANATOLE FRANCE (1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. He became famous with the novel Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [1881]. The novel was praised...

Histoire contemporaine est le titre générique d'un ensemble d'articles d'Anatole France, parus dans l'Écho de Paris en 1896, et qui désignera plus tard une série de quatre romans publiés chez Calmann-Lévy : l'Orme du mail , le Mannequin d'osier, l'Anneau d'améthyste et Monsieur Bergeret...

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.

Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Ile des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France.Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography...

This short story collection from eminent French writer Anatole France is a fitting introduction to his diverse body of work. With topics ranging from encounters with Satan to doomed romances, it's an engaging grab-bag of entertaining tales rendered in France's wry, ironic, understated tone.

Anatole France (1844 – 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 of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of...

The Château de Vaux le Vicomte is a translation of the text of a sumptuously illustrated volume descriptive of this wonderful monument of human frailty and ambition, published in 1888 by Lemercier et Cie with plates by Rodolphe Pfnor. Although the text has not been published apart from the plates...

This 1912 novel ranks among Anatole France’s last important works. It is a sweeping, historical novel that takes place in the final stages of the French Revolution, and poignantly illustrates the dangers of fanaticism. Written with France’s characteristic insight and style, this is a thoughtful and provoking novel.

French literary master Anatole France breathes new life into the age-old French folktale about a murderous aristocrat with a propensity for ending his many marriages in a not-so-legal manner. In France's version of the story, some newly uncovered evidence sheds light on Bluebeard's true nature and suggests that the legendary lover has been unfairly saddled with his reputation for rage killings.