{"product_id":"2940015131789","title":"CRAINQUEBILLE, PUTOIS, RIQUET, and Other Profitable Tales (English Edition)","description":"\"CRAINQUEBILLE\" is a story that primarily concerns the adventures of of an old and homeless street vendor who accidentally insults a policeman and is taken to jail. After his release, he again, insults yet another policeman, only this time deliberately with the hopes of returning to jail, where he had been fed and cared for. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book also includes many other stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOR nearly half a century the name of Anatole France has stood in the estimation of the world for all that the most exquisite and most refined in the French language; he has exerted over the minds of his own and succeeding generations an intellectual influence second to none, and he has enjoyed a prestige comparable only to that of Voltaire. He is a devoted lover of the Muses, and if he professes no philosophy, no creed, it is because he has tried them all and discovered none that will unravel the master-knot of human fate. Nevertheless, in the course of this journey we call Life, this pilgrimage, the whence and whither of which are enveloped in obscurity, we shall find him a highly agreeable companion. He is never dictatorial and never in a hurry. He is, in fact, much given to loitering, and if a by-way tempts him, he will readily leave the high road to explore it. He will tell many a diverting story of saint and sinner, and many of folk who were neither the one nor the other, but a blend of both, like the majority of us. His polished, urbane discourse, rich with the spoils of Time, though always amusing and profitable, is not invariably what pious folk call \"edifying.\" In that respect he resembles Shakespeare, Rabelais and Sterne. He is prodigiously learned, but he will never bore you with a display of erudition. He is too great to be merely clever, too wise to be dogmatic. He is indulgent to all men, save the fanatics. Fanatics he detests, because they are the sworn enemies of Beauty, and in his eyes the only unpardonable sins are the sins against Beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnatole France sees life steadily, and sees it whole. With the insight of genius he can enter into the state of mind and speak with the tongue appropriate to all his characters, from the highest to the lowest—scholar, politician, priest, soldier, voluptuary, wanton, all the motley dramatis personæ that move across the stage of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose who have come under the spell of Anatole France and are conscious of his peculiar charm, know instinctively that, when his voice is hushed, such accents will never fall upon their ears again. There will doubtless be born other writers whose work will be no less illumined by grace and beauty, but it will be a different grace, a different beauty. And the reason perhaps is that, in nearly all his writings, certainly in all those by which he will be chiefly held in memory, he gives utterance not so much to the mere results of some intellectual process, but rather to the dictates of his whole nature, heart and mind indissolubly interwoven, and, if the language he employs is the language of France, his voice is the voice of all humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an illuminating article recently published in the Quarterly Review, Mr. George Saintsbury, the greatest living English authority on French literature, says that to him \"M. France has continued to appear as a new embodiment, Avatar, exponent, or anything else you please, of French style—as giving the quintessence thereof.\" He adds that \"almost always he is a Master of the Laugh; and Heaven only knows what Earth would do without Laughter.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCRAINQUEBILLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePUTOIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRIQUET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MEDITATIONS OF RIQUET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NECKTIE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MONTIL MANŒUVRES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eADRIENNE BUQUET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INTAGLIO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLA SIGNORA CHIARA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUPRIGHT JUDGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE OCEAN CHRIST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJEAN MARTEAU\u003cbr\u003eI. A Dream\u003cbr\u003eII. The Law Is Dead But The Judge Is Living\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMONSIEUR THOMAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA SERVANT'S THEFT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDMÉE, OR CHARITY WELL BESTOWED","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084210094320,"sku":"2940015131789","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015131789_p0.jpg?v=1763619553","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015131789","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}