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The Red Lily

Anatole France

The Red Lily

Original publication
1894
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
514
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Romance, Philosophy
Translated from
French

Book summary

Jacques, a man torn between passion and disillusionment, maintains a complex relationship with Thérèse, a seductive and elusive woman. Their affair evolves through attraction, jealousy, and power games. In a refined social environment, feelings mingle with interests and appearances. Their exchanges reveal the contradictions of desire and love. The author draws a lucid and elegant portrait of human relationships, exploring the fragility of emotions and the illusions maintained by the heart.

The plot

Love in Florence. Thérèse, a wealthy Parisian, is bored with her husband, a member of parliament. In spring, she goes to stay with an English friend near Florence, in Italy. Jacques Dechartre, a sculptor, shows her the…

The world of the book

From Paris to Florence. The novel is set at the end of the 19th century. In Paris, wealthy people welcome politicians, generals and artists into their homes. Well-off foreigners settle in Florence, in Italy, to live…

The author

Anatole France 1844 – 1924. Anatole France grows up in Paris, on the banks of the Seine, in his father’s bookshop, where writers and scholars come to visit. He later becomes a librarian at the French Senate. Every…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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