The Elm-Tree on the Mall

by Anatole France · 1897

In a French provincial town, clergy and academics intrigue over a vacant bishopric, in the first of France's satirical 'Contemporary History'.

Books mentioned in The Elm-Tree on the Mall (8)

• Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle: “a greater work than 'Gargantua' or 'Don Quixote' or 'Sartor Resartus' or 'Tristram Shandy'”
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “a greater work than 'Gargantua' or 'Don Quixote' or 'Sartor Resartus'”
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: “'Don Quixote' or 'Sartor Resartus' or 'Tristram Shandy'”
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais: “a greater work than 'Gargantua' or 'Don Quixote'”
• La Terre by Émile Zola: “accusing Zola of having shamefully maligned the peasants in La Terre”
• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: “a copy of the Imitation de Jésus-Christ, bound in purple and gold”
• Phèdre by Jean Racine: “It is the teaching of Port-Royal that underlies the Phèdre of Racine”
• Histoire Générale des Voyages by Antoine François Prévost: “the thirty-eighth volume of l'Histoire Générale des Voyages”