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"Nobel Prize-winning Literature Collection Series: Teïse (France Volume)" selects the writer's Nobel Prize-winning work "Teïse" and the fairy tale "The Bee". In his novel Teïse he plunged passionately into the world of Alexandria, a time when the feeble survivors of Greek civilization were suffering from the lash of Christianity. Skepticism and sensuality reached their climax here, mystical and aesthetic carousing abounded, and angels and devils in human form terrorized the church's priests and neo-Hellenistic philosophers around them, vying for human souls above them. The story is full of the moral nihilism of the era, but contains beautiful passages, such as hermits preaching on columns in a lonely desert, or nightmares in a mummy's tomb.