num_pages: 279
description: Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, The Gods Will Have Blood is the story of Gamelin, an idealistic young artist appointed as a magistrate during the French Revolution. Gamelin's ideals lead him to the most monstrous mass murder of his countrymen, and the links between Gamelin and his family, his mistress and the humanist Brotteaux are catastrophically severed. This book recreates the violence and devastation of the Terror with breathtaking power, and weaves into it a tale which grips, convinces and profoundly moves. The perfection of Anatole France's prose style, with its myriad subtle ironies, is here translated by Frederick Davies with admirable skill and sensitivity. That The Gods Will Have Blood is Anatole France's masterpiece is beyond doubt. It is also one of the most brilliantly polished novels in French literature.Anatole France was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921.
language: English
title: The Gods Will Have Blood
titlecomplete: The Gods Will Have Blood
characters: Marthe Gorcut, Évariste Gamelin, Louis Longuemare, Élodie Blaise, Jean Blaise, Rose Thénevin, Maurice Brotteaux des Ilettes, Philippe Desmahis
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, France, Historical Fiction, Fiction, French Literature, French Revolution
ratings_count: 2606
places: France
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd