The Seven Wives of Bluebeard (Short Story Index Reprint Series) [Hardcover]

Anatole France (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1973 | ISBN-10: 0836937694 | ISBN-13: 978-0836937695

"THE strangest, the most varied, the most erroneous opinions have been expressed with regard to the famous individual commonly known as Bluebeard. None, perhaps, was less tenable than that which made of this gentleman a personification of the Sun. For this is what a certain school of comparative mythology set itself to do, some forty years ago. It informed the world that the seven wives of Bluebeard were the Dawns, and that his two brothers-in-law were the morning and the evening Twilight, identifying them with the Dioscuri, who delivered Helena when she was rapt away by Theseus. We must remind those readers who may feel tempted to believe this that in 1817 a learned librarian of Agen, Jean-Baptiste Peres, demonstrated, in a highly plausible manner, that Napoleon had never existed, and that the story of this supposed great captain was nothing but a solar myth. Despite the most ingenious diversions of the wits, we cannot possibly doubt that Bluebeard and Napoleon did both actually exist. "

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Text: English, French (translation)

About the Author

Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 231 pages
• Publisher: Ayer Co Pub (June 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836937694
• ISBN-13: 978-0836937695
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,676,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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