Anatole France books on Earthlight Books

Search Our Online Inventory

Author
Title
Description
Keyword
ISBN

Navigation

Membership Program

Buy eBooks Here!

Home

Shopping Cart

Checkout

Browse by Category

Offline Search Service

About Us

Contact Us

Earthlight's Blog

Store Policies

Privacy Policy

Map to Store

Links

Login

Online Gift Cards

Would you like an Online Gift Card to Earthlight Books?

Click Here to Buy a Gift Card

http://www.facebookloginhut.com/facebook-login/

Links
Last Word Books

Last Earth Distro

Last Word Press

Walla Walla:
Welcome Table Farm

Detour Farm

Hot Poop

Book and Game Co.

Gerald Matthew's Museum of Un-Natural History

Anatole; Evans, A.W. (translator) France Listings

If you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings.

Click on Title to view full description

Add to Shopping Cart

Penguin Island; Anatole; Evans, A.W. (translator) France The Heritage Press 1938 B0048MRZN6 Hardcover

Very Good

B0048MRZN6 Published by The Heritage Press in 1938. ~Very Good. No DJ. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to boards; satisfaction guaranteed. Light bumping and rubbing to corners and edges. Association copy: This book is from the collection of Elizabeth Story Donno and Daniel J. Donno. Elizabeth Donno was an esteemed Renaissance scholar and alumna of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, class of 1944. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Whitman in 1979. In the summer of 2009 her collection was donated to the Penrose Memorial Library at Whitman and we are slowly making it available for purchase. Proceeds from the sale of Donno's library benefit the Penrose Memorial Library, the local Walla Walla economy, and Earthlight Books, across the street from Whitman. If you are interested in more of her library please contact us directly. Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Île des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France. Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island of great auks that exists off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the great auks as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partly blind, he mistakes the animals for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for The Lord who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the great auks to people and giving them a soul. Thus begins the great auk history and from there forward the history mirrors that of France (and largely Western Europe including Britain). From the Migration Period ("Dark Ages") when the Germanic tribes incessantly fought among one another for territory; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne ("Draco the Great") and conflicts with Viking raiders ("porpoises"); to the Renaissance (Erasmus); and up to the modern era with motor cars, and even a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything starts again in an endless cycle. The longest chapter and probably most well known is a satire of the Dreyfus affair. Scattered throughout are allusions to real historical people such as Columba and Saint Augustine, as well as fictitious characters who represent historical people. Penguin Island is a critique of human nature from a socialist standpoint in which morals, customs and laws are satirized. For example, the origin of the aristocracy is presented as starting with the brutal and shameless murder of a peasant and the robbing of his land.
Price: 13.50 USD

Add to Shopping Cart

Thais; Anatole France Illustrated Editions Co. 1932 B000S77FTY Hardcover

Good

B000S77FTY ~Good. No DJ. Hardcover. Light to moderate shelf wear to boards; satisfaction guaranteed. Association copy: This book is from the collection of Elizabeth Story Donno and Daniel J. Donno. Elizabeth Donno was an esteemed Renaissance scholar and alumna of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, class of 1944. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Whitman in 1979. In the summer of 2009 her collection was donated to the Penrose Memorial Library at Whitman and we are slowly making it available for purchase. Proceeds from the sale of Donno's library benefit the Penrose Memorial Library, the local Walla Walla economy, and Earthlight Books, across the street from Whitman. If you are interested in more of her library please contact us directly. Thaïs is a novel by Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet.
Price: 8.00 USD

Add to Shopping Cart

The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard; Anatole FRANCE The Folio Society 1948 B001OSKHNW Hardcover

Good

B001OSKHNW ~Good. Good DJ. Light to moderate shelf wear to boards/DJ; satisfaction guaranteed. DJ moderately chipped and torn along edges.
Price: 15.00 USD

Add to Shopping Cart

The Elm-Tree on the Mall: A Chronicle of Our Own Times by France, Anatole; France, Anatole Parke, Austin & Lipscomb n.d. Hardcover

Good

Good. No dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior, Support Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers! 65.00 p. volume 17 only, top edge gilt, deckled edges
Price: 32.50 USD

Add to Shopping Cart

The Garden Of Epicurus by France, Anatole; France, Anatole Dodd, Mead & Company Hardcover

Fair

~Fair. No DJ. Moderate to heavy shelf wear to boards; satisfaction guaranteed. Leather bound.
Price: 10.50 USD

Institute For Anarchist Studies

Anders, Donna