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by Elizabeth Fallaize

Book Overview

This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Caribbean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019958317X
• ISBN13: 9780199583171
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.6"