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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

佛羅倫斯之戀。泰蕾絲是巴黎的富家女子,嫁給一位議員,日子過得百無聊賴。春天,她到義大利佛羅倫斯附近拜訪一位英國朋友。雕塑家雅克·德夏特爾帶她參觀城裡的教堂和名畫。她愛上了他。

The world of the book

從巴黎到佛羅倫斯。小說發生在19世紀末。在巴黎,富人在家中款待議員、將軍和藝術家。富裕的外國人在義大利佛羅倫斯定居,只為生活在古老的畫作和雕像身旁。紅百合是佛羅倫斯的象徵,也成了這本書的書名。

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