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The Red Lily

Anatole France

The Red Lily

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €6.99

Original publication
1894
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
658
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Romance, Philosophy
Moods
Fall in love, Be seduced, Think it through
Translated from
French

Book summary

In Paris, Thérèse, a young society woman in a loveless marriage, is bored in her elegant drawing room. On a trip to Florence, the city whose emblem is the red lily, she falls in love with Jacques Dechartre, a sensitive and passionate artist. But Jacques is jealous, and Thérèse's past comes back to haunt him.

A great story of love and jealousy under the Tuscan sun, by Anatole France, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

With the translation always in front of you, you can read this beautiful novel in the language you are learning.

The plot

フィレンツェの恋。パリの裕福な女性テレーズは、代議士の夫との暮らしに退屈している。春、イタリアのフィレンツェ近くに住むイギリス人の友人を訪ねる。彫刻家ジャック・デシャルトルが、町の教会や絵画を案内してくれる。テレーズは彼に恋をする。

The world of the book

パリからフィレンツェへ。舞台は19世紀末。パリでは裕福な人々が、代議士や将軍、芸術家を自宅に招く。豊かな外国人たちは、古い絵画や彫像のそばで暮らそうとフィレンツェに住みつく。フィレンツェの象徴である赤いユリが、本の題名になった。

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