On Life And Letters - Softcover

France, Anatole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410212955 ISBN 13: 9781410212955

Publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific, 2004

Synopsis

CONTENTS Preface - M. Alexandre Dumas (the Younger) - Children's Playthings - Gustave Flaubert - M. Guy de Maupassant, Critic and Novelist - "Happiness" - Mérimée - Outside Literature - Bibliophilia - Criminals - Death and the Little Gods - The Great EncyclopFdia - M. Henri Meilhac at the French Academy - A Forgotten Poet: Saint-Cyr de Rayssac - The Errors of History - On Scepticism - Euripides - M. Signoret's Marionettes - Mother and Daughter: Madame de Sabran and Madame de Custine - M. Jules Lemaître - 1814 - Tomorrow - M. Charles Morice - The Great St. Antony - Anthology - The Wisdom of Gyp - Anthology - M. Gaston Paris and the French Literature of the Middle Ages - Dictionary - M. Zola's Purity - "The Tempest" - The Blond Tress - An Honest Girl - "The History of the People of Israel" - The Eloquence of the Tribune - Romance and Magic - M. Octave Feuillet - Joan of Arc and Poetry Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.

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About the Author:

Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques Anatol Thibault, 1844- 1924) was the most prominent French man of letters of his time. France's style was precise, elegant, gentle, ironic, and humorous. He was elected to the French Academy, and in 1921 was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Some of his other works include The Aspirations of Jean Servien, The Revolt of the Angels, and Penguin Island.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1410212955
• ISBN 13: 9781410212955
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360