The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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About This Book
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.
Chapters (42)
- THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD
- PART I—THE LOG
- December 24, 1849.
- August 30, 1850
- May 7, 1851
- July 8, 1852.
- August 20, 1859.
- October 10, 1859.
- October 25, 1859.
- Naples, November 10, 1859.
- Monte-Allegro, November 30, 1859.
- Girgenti. Same day.
- Girgenti, November 30, 1859.
- Paris, December 8, 1859.
- December 30, 1859.
- PART II—THE DAUGHTER OF CLEMENTINE
- Chapter I—The Fairy
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV—The Little Saint-George
- April 16.
- April 17.
- From May 2 to May 5.
- June 3.
- June 4.
- June 6.
- July 6.
- August 12.
- September-December.
- December 15.
- December 20.
- February 186-.
- April-June
- August, September.
- October 3.
- December 28.
- December 29.
- January 15, 186-.
- May.
- September 20.
- The Last Page
- August 21, 1869.
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