French short stories: Nouvelles Francaises: Volume 2 (Penguin Parallel Text Series): v. 2 - Softcover

Authors, Various

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140034145 ISBN 13: 9780140034141

Publisher: Penguin, 1972

Synopsis

Paperback. Pages: 240 Publisher: Penguin Books These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text. Making them valuable for both French and English language students. Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece Green Tobacco by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of The Ants by the post-war king of cafe society. Boris Vian. ??and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues . Contents: Green tobacco. Claire Sainte-Soline; the ants. Boris Vian; the dead man's return. CF Ramuz; a house in the Place des Fetes. Roger Grenier; Jimmy. Francoise Mallet-Joris; the unknown saint. Blaise Cendrars; Sabine. Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues; traffic in horses. Jacques Perret.

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Product Description:

These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students.

Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece ‘Green Tobacco’ by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of ‘The Ants’ by the post-war king of café society, Boris Vian, and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues.

About the Author:

The Marvel and Other Short Stories is a collected anthology of six short stories written by the winners of the Austin Macauley World Book Day short story competition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0140034145
• ISBN 13: 9780140034141
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Lee Simon