The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France: Penguin Island, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnards, The Revolt of the Angels, The Gods are Athirst, Thais, and The Red Lily. Decorations by Frank C. Paper, John Austen and Donia Nachshen (HQ86)

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The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France: Penguin Island, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnards, The Revolt of the Angels, The Gods are Athirst, Thais, and The Red Lily. Decorations by Frank C. Paper, John Austen and Donia Nachshen

French critic Anatole France, pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault wrote sophisticated, often satirical short stories and novels, including Penguin Island (1908), and won the Nobel Prize of 1921 for literature.

Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist. From 1867, he as a journalist composed articles and notices.

In 1869, Le Parnasse Contemporain published La Part de Madeleine of his poems. In 1875, he sat on the committee in charge of the third such compilation. He moved Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé aside.

Skeptical old scholar Sylvester Bonnard, protagonist of famous Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), embodied own personality of the author. The academy praised its elegant prose.

Anatole France in La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque (1893) ridiculed belief in the occult and in Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard (1893) captured the atmosphere of the fin de siècle.

People elected him to the Académie française in 1896.
People falsely convicted Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, of espionage. Anatole France took an important part in the affair, signed manifesto of Émile Zola to support Dreyfus, and authored Monsieur Bergeret in 1901.

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