Kuningatar Hanhenjalan ravintola by Anatole France

"Kuningatar Hanhenjalan ravintola" by Anatole France is a historical novel written in 1892. Young Jacques Ménétrier begins as a spit-turner in his father's roast meat shop in early eighteenth-century France. His life transforms when Abbot Jérôme Coignard takes him as a student, teaching him Latin and Greek. Together they enter the service of an alchemist obsessed with salamanders and sylphs. Their pursuit of knowledge and happiness becomes entangled with debauchery, vengeance, and the charms of the beautiful Jahel. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author France, Anatole, 1844-1924
Translator Leino, Eino, 1878-1926
Uniform Title La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque. Finnish
Title Kuningatar Hanhenjalan ravintola
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Sign_of_the_Reine_P%C3%A9dauque
Credits E-text prepared by Anna Siren and Tapio Riikonen
Reading Level Reading ease score: 40.2 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language Finnish
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Bildungsromans
Subject Egypt -- Fiction
Subject Christian women saints -- Fiction
Subject Mary, of Egypt, Saint -- Fiction
Subject Picaresque fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 55422
Release Date
Last Update Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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