The White Stone and Putois

The White Stone and Putois
Title The White Stone and Putois PDF eBook
Author Anatole France
Publisher Library of Alexandria
Pages 232
Release 2020-09-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1465605061

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A few Frenchmen, united in friendship, who were spending the spring in Rome, were wont to meet amid the ruins of the disinterred Forum. They were JosŽphin Leclerc, an Embassy AttachŽ on leave; M. Goubin, licenciŽ �s lettres, an annotator; Nicole Langelier, of the old Parisian family of the Langeliers, printers and classical scholars; Jean Boilly, a civil engineer, and Hippolyte Dufresne, a man of leisure, and a lover of the fine arts. Towards five oÕclock of the afternoon of the first day of May, they wended their way, as was their custom, through the northern door, closed to the public, where Commendatore Boni, who superintended the excavations, welcomed them with quiet amenity, and led them to the threshold of his house of wood nestling in the shadow of laurel bushes, privet hedges and cytisus, and rising above the vast trench, dug down to the depth of the ancient Forum, in the cattle market of pontifical Rome. Here, they pause awhile, and look about them. Facing them rise the truncated shafts of the Column¾ Honorari¾, and where stood the Basilica of Julia, the eye rested on what bore the semblance of a huge draughts-board and its draughts. Further south, the three columns of the Temple of the Dioscuri cleave the azure of the skies with their blue-tinted volutes. On their right, surmounting the dilapidated Arch of Septimus Severus, the tall columns of the Temple of Saturn, the dwellings of Christian Rome, and the WomenÕs Hospital display in tiers, their facings yellower and muddier than the waters of the Tiber. To their left stands the Palatine flanked by huge red arches and crowned with evergreen oaks. At their feet, from hill to hill, among the flagstones of the Via Sacra, narrow as a village street, spring from the earth an agglomeration of brick walls and marble foundations, the remains of buildings which dotted the Forum in the days of RomeÕs strength. Trefoil, oats, and the grasses of the field which the wind has sown on their lowered tops, have covered them with a rustic roof illumined by the crimson poppies. A mass of dŽbris, of crumbling entablatures, a multitude of pillars and altars, an entanglement of steps and enclosing walls: all this indeed not stunted but of a serried vastness and within limits.

Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and Other Profitable Tales

Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and Other Profitable Tales
Title Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and Other Profitable Tales PDF eBook
Author François-Anatole Thibault
Publisher Good Press
Pages 121
Release 2021-04-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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This is an exciting collection of the most beloved stories by Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921. Filled with amusing characters and absorbing plots, this work will hold the readers' attention till the end.

The White Stone

The White Stone
Title The White Stone PDF eBook
Author François-Anatole Thibault
Publisher Good Press
Pages 141
Release 2021-04-10
Genre Fiction
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"The White Stone" by François-Anatole Thibault (translated by C. E. Roche). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Works of Anatole France in English: Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet, and other profitable tales

The Works of Anatole France in English: Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet, and other profitable tales
Title The Works of Anatole France in English: Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet, and other profitable tales PDF eBook
Author Anatole France
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1923
Genre
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Crainquebille, Putois, Riquest and Other Profitable Tales ...

Crainquebille, Putois, Riquest and Other Profitable Tales ...
Title Crainquebille, Putois, Riquest and Other Profitable Tales ... PDF eBook
Author Anatole France
Publisher
Pages 266
Release 1924
Genre
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Anatole France, the Man and His Work

Anatole France, the Man and His Work
Title Anatole France, the Man and His Work PDF eBook
Author James Lewis May
Publisher London, John Lane
Pages 310
Release 1924
Genre Authors, French
ISBN

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Translations of Foreign Novels

Translations of Foreign Novels
Title Translations of Foreign Novels PDF eBook
Author Minerva Ethel Grimm
Publisher
Pages 96
Release 1917
Genre English fiction
ISBN

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