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The Red Lily — Complete — Anatole France

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 208 pages

The Red Lily is a novel by Anatole France about love, passion, and social conventions in late 19th-century Paris. Through a heroine torn between marriage and desire, it explores loyalty, pride, and inner conflict. It is worth listening to for its refined prose and psychological insight.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE RED LILY
  2. BOOK 1.
  3. CHAPTER I. “I NEED LOVE”
  4. CHAPTER II. “ONE CAN SEE THAT YOU ARE YOUNG!”
  5. CHAPTER III. A DISCUSSION ON THE LITTLE CORPORAL
  6. CHAPTER IV. THE END OF A DREAM
  7. CHAPTER V. A DINNER ‘EN FAMILLE’
  8. CHAPTER VI. A DISTINGUISHED RELICT
  9. CHAPTER VII. MADAME HAS HER WAY
  10. CHAPTER VIII. THE LADY OF THE BELLS
  11. CHAPTER IX. CHOULETTE FINDS A NEW FRIEND
  12. BOOK 2.
  13. CHAPTER X. DECHARTRE ARRIVES IN FLORENCE
  14. CHAPTER XI. “THE DAWN OF FAITH AND LOVE”
  15. CHAPTER XII. HEARTS AWAKENED
  16. CHAPTER XIII. “YOU MUST TAKE ME WITH MY OWN SOUL!”
  17. CHAPTER XIV. THE AVOWAL
  18. CHAPTER XV. THE MYSTERIOUS LETTER
  19. CHAPTER XVI. “TO-MORROW?”
  20. CHAPTER XVII. MISS BELL ASKS A QUESTION
  21. CHAPTER XVIII. “I KISS YOUR FEET BECAUSE THEY HAVE COME!”
  22. CHAPTER XIX. CHOULETTE TAKES A JOURNEY
  23. CHAPTER XX. WHAT IS FRANKNESS?
  24. CHAPTER XXI. “I NEVER HAVE LOVED ANY ONE BUT YOU!”
  25. CHAPTER XXII. A MEETING AT THE STATION
  26. BOOK 3.
  27. CHAPTER XXIII. “ONE IS NEVER KIND WHEN ONE IS IN LOVE”
  28. CHAPTER XXIV. CHOULETTE’S AMBITION
  29. CHAPTER XXV. “WE ARE ROBBING LIFE”
  30. CHAPTER XXVI. IN DECHARTRE’S STUDIO

and 9 more chapters

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