Anatole France (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Of the twenty-five volumes which make up the standard French edition of the complete works of Anatole France, more than fifteen are given over to one form or another of prose fiction: ten novels (thirteen if one counts the tetralogy, Contemporary History, as four separate novels), ten collections of short stories, and four volumes of fictionalized autobiography. The remainder of the twenty-five-volume set exhibits a startling variety of literary forms: poetry, theater, biography, history, literary criticism, philosophy, journalism, and polemical...

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