The Amethyst Ring
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Description
Anatole France wrote The Amethyst Ring, the third of his Bergeret novels, in a translation by Drillien printed at London in 1919. It belongs to a contemporary history of French provincial life and Paris politics under the Third Republic. The book opens with a departure: Madame Bergeret has left the conjugal roof.
True to her word, she has gone to her mother, the widow Pouilly. She half regretted it and, with a little coaxing, would have forgotten the past. But the drawing rooms would not allow such weakness: all agreed that Madame must return to her mother. France turns the scandal of a professor's household into dry comedy, while an amethyst ring, a bishop's ambition, works its own plot in the background.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 356 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |