Anatole France

Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, ''The Gods Will Have Blood'' is the story of Gamelin, an idealistic young artist appointed as a magistrate during the French Revolution. Gamelin's ideals lead him to the most monstrous mass murder of his countrymen, and the links between Gamelin and his family, his mistress and the humanist Brotteaux are catastrophically severed. This book recreates the violence and devastation of the Terror with breathtaking power, and weaves into it a tale which grips, convinces and profoundly moves. The perfection of Anatole France's prose style, with its myriad subtle ironies, is here translated by Frederick Davies with admirable skill and sensitivity. That ''The Gods Will Have Blood'' is Anatole France's masterpiece is beyond doubt. It is also one of the most brilliantly polished novels in French literature.

(les Dieux Ont Soif)

The Gods Will Have Blood

The Human Spirit in His Quest for Knowledge“I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe; I knew that all that exists, exists of itself and not by the caprice of Iahveh; that the world is itself its own creator and the spirit its own God. Henceforth I despised Iahveh for his imposture, and I hated him because he showed himself to be opposed to all that I found desirable and good: liberty, curiosity, doubt.” - Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels Arcade, a guardian angel of the lowest rank seeks knowledge and falls out of Heaven because of it. He meets other fallen beings who plot to dethrone God. Maurice is the human who Arcade should be guarding and he wants his guardian angel back. But is he ready to face the truth? ,This book has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

The Revolt of the Angels

Robert B. Douglas

In those days the hermits of the desert lived in huts on the banks of the Nile, where they lived abstemious lives, taking no food till after sunset, and eating nothing but bread with a little salt and hyssop.They 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. It was a good and virtuous life. It was also fairly smelly. One day a desert hermit named Paphnutius was recalling the hours he had lived apart from God, and examining his sins one by one, that he might the better ponder on their enormity, he remembered that he had seen at the theatre at Alexandria a very beautiful actress named Thais. resolved that the courtesan must necessarily be brought to salvation. It was a terrible mistake, and one that still haunts us all. THAIS a dryly tongue-in cheek novel of spiritual enormity from Anatole France, winner of the Nobel Price for Literature

Thais

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Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took a vow to serve the Lord. His time was divided, according to the rule, between the singing of hymns, the study of grammar, and the meditation of eternal truths. A celestial perfume soon disclosed the virtues of the monk throughout the cloister, and when the blessed Gal, the Abbot of Yvern, departed from this world into the next, young Mael succeeded him in the government of the monastery. He established therein a school, an infirmary, a guest-house, a forge, work-shops of all kinds, and sheds for building ships, and he compelled the monks to till the lands in the neighbourhood. With his own hands he cultivated the garden of the Abbey, he worked in metals, he instructed the novices, and his life was gently gliding along like a stream that reflects the heaven and fertilizes the fields. At the close of the day this servant of God was accustomed to seat himself on the cliff, in the place that is to-day still called St. Mael's chair. At his feet the rocks bristling with green seaweed and tawny wrack seemed like black dragons as they faced the foam of the waves with their monstrous breasts. He watched the sun descending into the ocean like a red Host whose glorious blood gave a purple tone to the clouds and to the summits of the waves. And the holy man saw in this the image of the mystery of the Cross, by which the divine blood has clothed the earth with a royal purple. In the offing a line of dark blue marked the shores of the island of Gad, where St. Bridget, who had been given the veil by St. Malo, ruled over a convent of women. Now Bridget, knowing the merits of the venerable Mael, begged from him some work of his hands as a rich present. Mael cast a hand-bell of bronze for her and, when it was finished, he blessed it and threw it into the sea. And the bell went ringing towards the coast of Gad, where St. Bridget, warned by the sound of the bell upon the waves, received it piously, and carried it in solemn procession with singing of psalms into the chapel of the convent. Thus the holy Mael advanced from virtue to virtue. He had already passed through two-thirds of the way of life, and he hoped peacefully to reach his terrestrial end in the midst of his spiritual brethren, when he knew by a certain sign that the Divine wisdom had decided otherwise, and that the Lord was calling him to less peaceful but not less meritorious labours.

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.

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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The Garden of Epicurus

A ilha dos pinguins

Les dieux ont soif : quand il choisit pour titre ce mot de Camille Desmoulins, Anatole France ne veut nullement rejeter sur une fatalité tragique les atrocités de la Terreur. Ce texte admirable décrit l'horreur du fanatisme, l'obscurantisme gagnant les Lumières elles-mêmes, la barbarie prenant le masque du progrès. En 1912, ce livre du patriarche de la Gauche française qui dénonçait les excès de la Révolution fut accueilli comme un paradoxe. Aujourd'hui, cette représentation alarmée de l'histoire se lit comme une lucide préface à l'horrible XXe siècle, un avertissement contre l'ignorance et la peur qui engendrent la bêtise, la grande tueuse.

Les dieux ont soif

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The Revolt of the Angels by French poet, journalist, and novelist Anatole France, was originally published in 1914 as translated by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. The work tells the story of Arcade, the guardian angel of Maurice d'Esparvieu, who becomes an atheist due to reading books on theology. He decides to move to Paris to join a revolutionary movement of fallen angels, and after meeting the Devil becomes embroiled in an affair to overthrow God. The novel is a retelling of the classic Christian story of the war in heaven between the angels. On one side angels led by the Archangel Michael and the other side led by Satan. The war finishes with the defeat of Satan and his banishment to earth. The plot emphasises the protagonists at war with a ruling hierarchy, and the attempt to escape it, as well as a literary exploration of delusion, revolution, and self-realisation, when faced with choices within an apocalyptic context. The work also emphasises the mutual antagonism within the hierarchy of God and his angels, which leads to discontent and finally rebellion by the latter. It is generally thought of as Anatole France's most profound and ironic novel.

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Ile Des Pingouins

Fransız Akademisi üyesi ve Nobel ödüllü Anatole France'ın romanları arasında Kırmızı Zambak'ın önemli bir yeri vardnır. Zambaklar şehri Floransa'da geçen roman, seçkinler, sanatçılar ve siyasetçilerin yaşadığı ortam ve mekanlarda Fransa'da ve İtalya'da devam eder. Birbirini yeni tanıyan Thérèse ve Dechartre, aşkın tutku biçiminin esiri olan iki aşık olarak engel tanımazlar ve gerçek aşkı tadarlar. Ama hiçbir şey sonsuza kadar sürmez... Aşklar bile... Anatole France, 1950'lerden günümüze kadar dünyanın en iyi 10 aşk romanı içinde gösterilen Kırmızı Zambak'ta bile alaycı üslubunu başarıyla kullanmaktadır.

Kırmızı Zambak

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