Well of Saint Clare

Le Puits de Sainte Claire

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776670499
• Edition: 0

This short story collection from eminent French writer Anatole France is a fitting introduction to his diverse body of work. With topics ranging from encounters with Satan to doomed romances, it's an engaging grab-bag of entertaining tales rendered in France's wry, ironic, understated tone.

Table of contents

• THE WELL OF SAINT CLARE
• Contents
• Prologue - The Reverend Father Adone Doni
• San Satiro
• Messer Guido Cavalcanti
• Lucifer
• The Loaves of Black Bread
• The Merry-Hearted Buffalmacco
• The Lady of Verona
• The Human Tragedy
• The Mystic Blood
• A Sound Security
• History of Doña Maria d'Avalos and Don Fabricio, Duke d'Andria
• Bonaparte at San Miniato
• Endnotes