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Thais

First published
1890
Pages
139

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  1. Part the First - The Lotus, Section 1

    50:14

  2. Part the First - The Lotus, Section 2

    47:17

  3. Part the Second - The Papyrus, Section 1

    37:47

  4. Part the Second - The Papyrus, Section 2

    42:13

  5. Part the Second - The Banquet, Section 1

    32:03

  6. Part the Second - The Banquet, Section 2

    39:54

  7. Part the Second - The Banquet, Section 3

    33:59

  8. Part the Third - The Euphorbia, Section 1

    41:36

  9. Part the Third - The Euphorbia, Section 2

    39:41

  10. Part the Third - The Euphorbia, Section 3

    37:17

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Anatole France sets this ironic tale in fourth-century Egypt, where Paphnuce, a monk who has fled the world for the desert, resolves to save the soul of Thais, the celebrated courtesan of Alexandria. He succeeds. She renounces her old life and dies in the peace of a convent, revered as a saint. But the closer the monk comes to her, the more his own faith curdles into obsession, and salvation and ruin quietly trade places between them. France, a skeptic to the bone, reworks the legend of a repentant sinner into an attack on the vanity of asceticism. The story later gave Jules Massenet the subject of his famous opera. Free to read here as a PDF and EPUB download.

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Anatole France

Anatole France (1844-1924) was a French novelist and Nobel laureate celebrated for his irony, elegance, and skeptical wit. He was one of the most admired French writers of his era.

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Book facts

First published
1890
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
139
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Rom Maczka