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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

佛罗伦萨之恋。泰蕾丝是巴黎的富家女子,嫁给一位议员,日子过得百无聊赖。春天,她去意大利佛罗伦萨附近拜访一位英国朋友。雕塑家雅克·德夏特尔带她游览城中的教堂和名画。她爱上了他。

The world of the book

从巴黎到佛罗伦萨。小说发生在19世纪末。在巴黎,富人在家中款待议员、将军和艺术家。富裕的外国人在意大利佛罗伦萨定居,只为生活在古老的绘画和雕像身旁。红百合是佛罗伦萨的象征,也成了这本书的书名。

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