What one reviewer said about Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France:
Monsieur Bonnard is absolutely, utterly adorable! He is wise, witty, imaginative- the embodiement of good- yet totally unaware of it. Anatole France has created an extremely real character, some even say it is Anatole projecting himself into the future as an old man. The work is humorous and sincere. The translation I used was by Lafcadio Hearn and seemed to me one of the better ones.
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