The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France's novel of a Parisian woman who follows her heart to Florence, where a new passion collides with jealousy, memory, and the cost of desire.

At a glance Beneath the sculpted beauty of Florence, a woman who thought she understood her own… What it's about Anatole France follows a woman moving in the refined worlds of Paris and… Leaving behind the settled disappointments of her existing life, she gives herself to a… The novel traces the fine gradations of feeling between the lovers, the pressures of…

Anatole France follows a woman moving in the refined worlds of Paris and Italy, bound to one attachment and drawn irresistibly toward another.