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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Spending a spring among the archives of Siena, the narrator walks out each evening to an old well on the road to Monte Oliveto, where a Franciscan scholar, Father Adone Doni, tells him stories that never got into the books: how Saint Francis saw Saint Clare's face in the water, how a satyr came to be buried as a saint, how the painter Buffalmacco fooled his neighbours, and the long history of Fra Giovanni, who takes the Gospel at its word. Anatole France, the son of a Paris bookseller, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. Fifty-seven plates range from Benozzo Gozzoli's fifteenth-century frescoes of Sienese miracles to Edvard Munch's figures, matching the tales of saints and sinners told beside the well.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Spending a spring among the archives of Siena, the narrator walks out each evening to an old well on the road to Monte Oliveto, where a Franciscan scholar, Father Adone Doni, t...
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Anatole France (1844-1924) was a French novelist and critic born in Paris, the son of a bookseller. He was a leading defender of Dreyfus, sat in the Académie française, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. His works include The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, Thais, The Well of Saint Clare, and Penguin Island.
Anatole France (1844-1924) was a French novelist and critic born in Paris, the son of a bookseller. He was a leading defender of Dreyfus, sat in the Académie française, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. His works include The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, Thais, The Well of Saint C...
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