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Anatole France

Anatole France, born François-Anatole Thibault 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament". France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

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Books6

Essential Novelists - Anatole France

Essential Novelists - Anatole France

2020
A Very French Christmas

A Very French Christmas

2017

with Victor Hugo

Ghost Stories: 20 Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories: 20 Famous Modern Ghost Stories

2013

with Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz-James O'Brien and William Fryer Harvey

Storie di libri: amati, misteriosi, maledetti

Storie di libri: amati, misteriosi, maledetti

2011

with Hermann Hesse

Dinamita Cerebral. Antologia de cuentos anarquistas

Dinamita Cerebral. Antologia de cuentos anarquistas

1977

with Emile Zola

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

1921

with Algernon Blackwood, Fitz-James O'Brien and William Fryer Harvey

Graphic novels1

The Greatest Ghost & Horror Stories Ever Written: Volumes 1 to 7

The Greatest Ghost & Horror Stories Ever Written: Volumes 1 to 7

with Amelia B. Edwards, Walter de la Mare, William Fryer Harvey and H. Russell Wakefield

Collections3

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories in one volume

The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories in one volume

2020

with Amelia B. Edwards, Franz Kafka, Lafcadio Hearn, John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, M. R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and H. Russell Wakefield