International Short Stories: French - Softcover

Aicard, Jean; Prévost, Marcel; Vidocq, Eugéne François; De Balzac, Honoré; Voltaire; Reynolds, Francis J.; Bazin, René; Bourget, Paul; Cheneviére, Adolphe; Coppée, François

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1546406719 ISBN 13: 9781546406716

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Compiled by Francis J. Reynolds in 1910, this collection of classic French tales contains a collection of short stories by numerous notable French authors, including Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Francois Coppee, Guy de Maupassant, Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, and others. This fantastic, Englishlanguage anthology is highly recommended for those with an interest in French literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. The stories include: “A Piece of Bread”, “The Elixir of Life”, “The Age for Love”, “Mateo Falcone”, “The Mirror”, “My Nephew Joseph”, “A Forest Betrothal”, “Zadig the Babylonian”, “Abandoned”, “The Guilty Secret”, “Jean Monette”, “Solange”, “The Birds in the LetterBox”, and many more.

About this title

About the Author:

A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France's greatest fiction writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1546406719
• ISBN 13: 9781546406716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434