Thais by Anatole France COMPLETE AUDIOBOOK

Thaïs is a novel by French writer Anatole France, published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet.

Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds in converting her to Christianity. Yet on their return to the desert he becomes fascinated with her former life. She enters a convent to repent of her sins. He cannot forget the pull of her famous beauty, and becomes confused about the values of life. Later, as she is dying and can only see heaven opening before her, he comes to her side and tells her that her faith is an illusion, and that he loves her.

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Owing to the lessons of priest Macrunus he became a new man
Thais :
Whilst she lost her own soul, she also ruined the souls of many others
He was blind to his own interest
He did not know he was lusting over 'False Delights' 14:18
15:17 her eyes humid & filled with strange light
Nostrils quivering
Her mouth half open
Her breasts like 2 flowers &
Her arms smooth & fresh as 2 Brooks
Little by little by lowering the corners of the mouth expressing a mysterious suffering
Her large eyes were filled with tears
Her breathing heavy with sigh
Like a sign of a wind receives it's tempest
Pathnoteus on the floor uttering a prayer
Thou would pity in our hearts
Like the morning due of the
Upon the fields
Pray thy only love creatures in thee
The angels feel pity for her
Her wickednesses are abodnable
The more wicked she is the more I Lement for her
When fashions disturb us were like drunken men
We left unceasingly
Like to fall, miserably
Sometimes these passions Plung us into turbulent joy
The abstinent melancholy which envelopes the soul
Sin has never darkened the pureness if your mind
My sins are as countless as the sands of the dessert
He could by pronouncing the world of power
Break the invisible bond by which Thais was held in sin
But... Hampered by the neck, it had broken
He fell into uncertainty again!
There no expressiob of guilty pressure on her face nor she dressed according to custom
She was enveloped in a shroud, which hid even a part of her face
From which flowed white & heavy tears
To follow the Libyan bank to the City (founded by the Macedonian sea)
When he saw the dreadful river
The blood-red waters
Which roll between rocks of (gold &fire)
Joyfully receiving insults or threats
He feared to meet
Women by the(sight of the) well
Women, in blue smocks
Whom might put down a picture & smile ☺ at him)
Things dangerous for the hermit

The virtues (that Ankorites do beautifully on the tissue of faith)
Are as fragile as are beautiful
A Breath of an Ordinary Life may tarnish their Pleasant Colors
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