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1) Penguin Island

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France, Anatole

Series

Modern library of the world's best books

Language

English

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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...

2) Thaïs

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France, Anatole

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

Français

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Extrait : "Telle était la vertu de ces religieux, qu'elle soumettait à son pouvoir jusqu'aux bêtes féroces..."

3) The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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France, Anatole

Pub. Date

[1931]

Language

English

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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.

4) The Latin genius

Author

France, Anatole

Series

Works volume 33

Pub. Date

1924.

Language

English

5) Rabelais

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France, Anatole

Pub. Date

[1929]

Language

English

6) Thais

Author

France, Anatole

Pub. Date

1888.

Language

English

7) Le livre de mon ami: le livre de Pierre

Author

France, Anatole

Pub. Date

[1943]

Language

Français

8) The man who married a dumb wife: a comedy in two acts

Author

France, Anatole

Pub. Date

1915.

Language

English

9) Thaïs

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

Français

10) A very French Christmas: the greatest French holiday stories of all time

Series

Very Christmas

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

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This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time. Features classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering...