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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Anatole France

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . him a better authority about one's age than that young chatterbox who has taken it on herself to make remarks about my back. My back is round, she says. Ah! ah! I had some suspicion myself to that effect, but I am not going now to believe it at all, since it is the opinion of a giddy-headed young woman. Certainly I will not turn my head round to see who it was that spoke; but I am sure it was a pretty woman. Why? Because she talks like a capricious person and like a spoiled child. Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them. On the other hand, the pretty women can be just as fantastical as they please. My neighbour is evidently one of the latter.... But, after all, coming to think it over, she really did nothing worse than to expre. . . Read More

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I don't remember when the last time was that I enjoyed a book as much as this. This is the story of a gentle old man who has devoted his life to the study of books until circumstances disrupt his non-eventful life. This was evidently Anatole France's first novel. He, up to this point, was known only

"Όλες οι αλλαγές, ακόμα κι αυτές που τις ποθούμε τόσο πολύ, έχουνε την μελαγχολία τους. Γιατί ό,τι αφήνουμε πίσω μας είναι ένα κομμάτι του εαυτού μας. Πρέπει να πεθάνουμε στη μια ζωή για να μπούμε σε μια άλλη."

Ένα μικρό, ευχάριστο και γλυκό βιβλίο!

This book is characterized by a certain sweetness. Its author, Anatole France, was only in his thirties when he undertook to write The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard about an old bachelor who is a philologist and an honored member of the Academie Francaise.

What we have here are two stories, both about

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