The Mass of Shadows

The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: This tale the sacristan of the church of St.
Eulalie at Neuville d'Aumont told me, as we sat under the arbor of the White Horse, one fine summer evening, drinking a bottle of old wine to the health of the dead man, now very much at his ease, whom that very morning he had borne to the grave with full This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.