Author: Anatole FrancePublisher: Borgo Press
ISBN: 9781587158551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A dryly tongue-in cheek novel of spiritual enormity from Anatole France, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Thais by Anatole France, Fiction, Suspense
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher: Borgo Press
ISBN: 9781587158551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A dryly tongue-in cheek novel of spiritual enormity from Anatole France, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher: Mondial
ISBN: 159569059X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient ecclesiastical literary document that takes him from Paris to Sicily and then into his own life history. For the sake of justice and love, he ends up committing acts that at best are of doubtful legality. --- With "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard," Anatole France (1844-1924) wrote a novel that is both clever and wise and in the manner of the great masters of literary style - a book that is full of suspense from beginning to end.
Thais
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613105878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
ÊIn those days there were many hermits living in the desert. On both banks of the Nile numerous huts, built by these solitary dwellers, of branches held together by clay, were scattered at a little distance from each other, so that the inhabitants could live alone, and yet help one another in case of need. Churches, each surmounted by a cross, stood here and there amongst the huts, and the monks flocked to them at each festival to celebrate the services or to partake of the Communion. There were also, here and there on the banks of the river, monasteries, where the cenobites lived in separate cells, and only met together that they might the better enjoy their solitude. Both hermits and cenobites led abstemious lives, taking no food till after sunset, and eating nothing but bread with a little salt and hyssop. Some retired into the desert, and led a still more strange life in some cave or tomb. All lived in temperance and chastity; they wore a hair shirt and a hood, slept on the bare ground after long watching, prayed, sang psalms, and, in short, spent their days in works of penitence. As an atonement for original sin, they refused their body not only all pleasures and satisfactions, but even that care and attention which in this age are deemed indispensable. They believed that the diseases of our members purify our souls, and the flesh could put on no adornment more glorious than wounds and ulcers. Thus, they thought they fulfilled the words of the prophet, "The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." Amongst the inhabitants of the holy Thebaid, there were some who passed their days in asceticism and contemplation; others gained their livelihood by plaiting palm fibre, or by working at harvest-time for the neighbouring farmers. The Gentiles wrongly suspected some of them of living by brigandage, and allying themselves to the nomadic Arabs who robbed the caravans. But, as a matter of fact, the monks despised riches, and the odour of their sanctity rose to heaven. Angels in the likeness of young men, came, staff in hand, as travellers, to visit the hermitages; whilst demonsÑhaving assumed the form of Ethiopians or of animalsÑwandered round the habitations of the hermits in order to lead them into temptation. When the monks went in the morning to fill their pitcher at the spring, they saw the footprints of Satyrs and Aigipans in the sand. The Thebaid was, really and spiritually, a battlefield, where, at all times, and more especially at night, there were terrible conflicts between heaven and hell.
The Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Fiction, 1876-1983: Authors
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Saturday Review of Literature
Author: T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly
Author: The Nation
Author: Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Author: Gale Research CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
Author: