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The Red Lily

Anatole France

The Red Lily

Paper book: €33.99

Digital: €12.99

Original publication
1894
Bilingual edition
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

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…

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