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Mother of Pearl

by Anatole France

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This collection opens with France’s most famous story, in which the aged Pontius Pilate, taking the waters, cannot remember Jesus at all. Saints’ legends, the medieval tale of the juggler who offers his only skill to the Virgin, a ghostly midnight mass and stories of the Revolution follow.

Ironic, tender stories from the Nobel laureate at his most elegant. Download the free EPUB.

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