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Thais is a famous novella published in 1890 by Anatole France. The story is based on the life of Saint Thais of Egypt.

All lived in temperance and chastity; they wore a hair shirt and a hood, slept on the bare ground after long watching, prayed, sang psalms, and, in short, spent their days in works of penitence. As an atonement for original sin, they refused their body not only all pleasures... Read Full Overview

Tha?s is a novel by Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Tha?s of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet.

In those days the hermits of the desert lived in huts on the banks of the Nile, where they lived abstemious lives, taking no food till after sunset, and eating nothing but bread with a little salt and hyssop. They lived in temperance and chastity; they wore... Read Full Overview

A dryly tongue-in cheek novel of spiritual enormity from Anatole France, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

La novela recrea y profundiza en la historia de Santa Tais, una santa venerada por las iglesias copta, cat lica y ortodoxa. Con pluma magistral Anatole France reconstruye el momento en que la entonces cortesana rica de la Alejandr a egipcia del siglo IV, abandona la vida de lujurias... Read Full Overview

Paphnuce est devenu abb d'un groupe de moines c nobites gyptiens, pour se repentir d'une jeunesse de frivolit et de d bauche. Apr s des ann es de retraite et de vie monacale, sur le coup d'une vision, il revient sur les lieux de sa jeunesse pour tirer la com dienne Tha s d'une... Read Full Overview

In "Thais - Legende um die gyptische Het re" entf hrt Anatole France die Leser in das alte gypten, wo das Schicksal der bezaubernden Het re Thais in stilistischer Pracht und literarischer Raffinesse erz hlt wird. Mit einer Mischung aus historischer Fiktion und philosophischen... Read Full Overview

En aquel tiempo, el desierto estaba poblado de anacoretas. En ambas orillas del Nilo, innumerables caba?as, construidas con ramaje y arcilla por los solitarios, se alzaban a cierta distancia unas de otras, de modo que sus ocupantes vivieran aislados, pero en condiciones de ayudarse... Read Full Overview

Tha s is a novel by Anatole France, published in 1890. Set in early Christian Egypt, it tells the story of Paphnutius, a devout monk who seeks to save the soul of Tha s, a famous courtesan in Alexandria. Driven by religious zeal, Paphnutius persuades Tha s to abandon her life... Read Full Overview

Tha s. La cortesana de Alejandr a. ANATOLE FRANCE Francia 1844 - 1924

En ce temps-l le d sert, tait peupl d'anachor tes. Sur les deux rives du Nil, d'innombrables cabanes, b ties de branchages et d'argile par la main des solitaires, taient sem es quelque distance les unes des autres, de fa on que ceux qui les habitaient pouvaient vivre isol... Read Full Overview

In those days there were many hermits living in the desert. On both banks of the Nile numerous huts, built by these solitary dwellers, of branches held together by clay, were scattered at a little distance from each other, so that the inhabitants could live alone, and yet help... Read Full Overview

TaisBy Anatole France