Anatole France: 358 books

M. Bergeret était à table et prenait son repas modique du soir ; Riquet était couché à ses pieds sur un coussin de tapisserie. Riquet avait l'âme religieuse et rendait à l'homme des honneurs divins. Il tenait son maître pour très bon et très grand. Mais c'est principalement quand il le voyait à table qu'il concevait la grandeur et la bonté souveraines de M. Bergeret.

La mer recouvre aujourd'hui le sol où fut le duché des Clarides. Nul vestige de la ville et du château. Mais on dit qu'à une lieue au large, on voit, par les temps calmes, d'énormes troncs d'arbres debout au fond de l'eau. Un endroit du rivage qui sert de poste aux douaniers se nomme encore en...

Publish Marguerite, dear Monsieur André Coq, if you so desire, but pray relieve me from all responsibility in the matter. It would argue too much literary conceit on my part were I anxious to restore it to the light of day. It would argue, perhaps, still more did I endeavour to keep it in obscurity....

Thais is a novel by Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations by Frank C. PapeFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Anatole France's satiric classic, opens with a Christian missionary monk who accidentally lands on the island and mistakes the native penguins...

Though putatively geared for younger audiences, these sophisticated and darkly nuanced tales and sketches bear the mark of Anatole France's ironic, detached authorial presence. From original works to re-imagined versions of classic folktales, it's a charming and thought-provoking collection.

In this timeless tale, French writer Anatole France recasts the life and works of the beloved 4th century saint who was the distant ancestor of our modern-day Santa Claus. Known for his eminently generous personality, St. Nicolas has also had a number of miracles attributed to him, including the resurrection of three children who had been murdered by a crazed butcher.

TRUE to her word, Madame Bergeret quitted the conjugal roof and betook herself to the house of her mother, the widow Pouilly. As the time for her departure drew near, she had half a mind not to go, and with a little coaxing would have consented to forget the past and resume the old life with her husband, at the same time vaguely despising M. Bergeret as the injured party.

Setting on her golden hair a hood spread with pearls and tying round her waist the widow's girdle, the Countess of the White Moor entered the chapel where she prayed each day for the soul of her husband, killed by an Irish giant in single combat. That day she saw, on the cushion of her praying-stool,...

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 (1897), le Mannequin d'osier (1897), l'Anneau d'améthyste (1899) et Monsieur...

Les Plaisirs et les Jours est un recueil de poèmes en prose et de nouvelles publié par Marcel Proust en 1896 chez Calmann-Lévy, avec une préface d’Anatole France. Ce recueil, dont le titre fait écho à Les Travaux et les Jours d’Hésiode, s’inspire fortement du décadentisme et notamment...

Thaïs est un roman de l'écrivain français Anatole France (1844 - 1924), inspiré du récit de la vie de sainte Thaïs. Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est...

Along the hill-side he came, following a path which skirted the sea. His forehead was bare, deeply furrowed and bound by a fillet of red wool. The sea-breeze blew his white locks over his temples and pressed the fleece of a snow-white beard against his chin. His tunic and his feet were the colour of the roads which he had trodden for so many years.

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,...