The Gods Are Athirst

Anatole France

⏱ 8 minHistorical classic

A sincere, idealistic young painter is made a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal during the Terror -- and his very purity turns him into a monster who sends more and more to the guillotine, until the machine devours him too. Anatole France's cold, terrifying novel of ideology and mass murder.

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