Anatole France: In His Own words (Your comments are most welcome) from The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard HISTORICAL BOOKS " It is a historical book ," he said to me, with a smile - "a book of real history." "In that case," I replied, 'it must be very tiresome; for all all the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious. I write some authentic myself; and if you were unlucky enough to carry a copy of any of them from door to door you would run the keeping it all your life in that green baize of yours, without ever finding even a cook foolish enough to buy it from you . ( The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard -p. 6) "This old-book man" evidently thought Hamilcar" talks to no purpose at all", while our housekeeper never utters a word which is not full of good sense, full of significance containing either the announcement of a meal or ...
