The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (International Collectors Library)

310 pp. Maroon leatherette boards, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, ribbon marker bound in, illustrated endpapers. English translation of the author's first novel, comprising two stories linked by the diary entry of Sylvestre Bonnard. First published in French in 1881, inspiration for the 1929 silent film of the same name. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. About the author: "Anatole France (16 April 1844—12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Academie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature."