Anatole France
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Excerpt from Anatole FranceIrony is for the ironic. He has shown himself military at the last, but I believe Anatole France would have smiled, a little wistfully, if told that a young man had sentenced himself to read every one of his works and to write a book about them while there raged round him a European War. Such an atmosphere may seem unpropitious, but it was not really so; it was an atmosphere of paradox; it was odd to analyse the great pacifist while Europe writhed in conflict; still odder to think of him as throwing aside his pen and at the age of seventy taking up his forsworn sword...
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- ANATOLE FRANCE
- CONTENTS
- I INTRODUCTORY
- II SATIRIST AND CRITIC
- III PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN
- IV HISTORIAN AND POLITICIAN
- V THE CRAFTSMAN AND THE MAN
- A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANATOLE FRANCE’S PRINCIPAL WRITINGS
- FRENCH TITLES
- ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY
- AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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