The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jacques-Anatole-Françoi Thibault
- First Published: 1881
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic romance
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Sylvestre Bonnard, Madame Jeanne, Mademoiselle Coccoz, Henri Prefere, Gelis
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, France or French people, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Dreams, Books, Widows or widowers, Orphans or orphanages
- Locales: France
The Story:
Bonnard was a retiring philologist, a Member of the Institute, and a bachelor. Therese, his maid, looked after him firmly; she was the real mistress of his domestic arrangements. Bonnard, his mind stuffed with anti-quarian lore about the old abbeys of Paris, lived mostly in the past.
One day a sickly bookseller called and unsuccessfully showed him some cheap editions. Although he bought no books, Bonnard was moved by the thin, intense man. When he inquired of Therese, she told him that the bookseller, Monsieur Coccoz, lived up in the attic under a leaky roof...
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Anatole France (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Anatole France (Short Fiction)Anatole France (Censorship)Anatole France (Long Fiction)Anatole France (Dictionary of World Biography)
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