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Ten unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: "Micromégas," by Voltaire; "The Atheist’s Mass" by Balzac; "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler" by Flaubert; "Spleen of Paris" by Baudelaire; "Minuet" by de Maupassant; "The Guest" by Camus, and four extra. Accurate English translations be visible on pages facing the original French. In addition integrated are a French-English vocabulary list, oral and writing exercises. Critical introductions.
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Customer Reviews |
 Too Literary for the Living 2010-02-14 |
| By Jeffrey Strain (Des Moines, IA USA) |
The stories chosen for this book are deadly boring, with one exception. Of all the stories of
Maupassant from Madame Fifi to The Diary of a Madman, he has chosen a precious bit of descriptive
banality called Menuet. It depends on your taste. This book made me yawn. |
 A great way to brush up on your French 2009-11-14 |
| By Geoff Puterbaugh (Chiang Mai, T. Suthep, A. Muang Thailand) |
The English translations are not much to brag about, but they are there to serve a specific purpose: enabling us to read the original French. When we are engaged on such a project, we actually do not care about the beauty of the English translations: we need a trot, pretty much.
What matters more, I think, is whether the short stories are worth reading, and here Wallace Fowlie has scored a major triumph. Maupassant's "Menuet" and Balzac's "La Messe de l'Athee" are simply superb, and I look forward to reading the rest! |
| Perversion 2009-11-07 |
| By Billy Lee Harman |
| The translations needlessly deviate from the French, idiomatically and semantically and stylistly and syntactically, and the selection indicates a weird religious bent. So, as a teaching tool, this book best serves intermediate students of French, persons who can recognize the deviations. It could derail the progress of beginners. |
| Voltaire, who cares? 2009-03-23 |
| By jayneeq (seattle, wa) |
| When I was in college I was fluent in French. I have lost some of that ease in the ensuing years, but can still read French. I decided to get some dual-language books to polish up my reading skills. I discovered however, that I can read and understand Voltaire, but really don't enjoy the stories. Perhaps a book with more current literature would have been better. |
| Boss is enjoying this book gift 2009-01-24 |
| By Internet Shopper (San Jose, CA.) |
| My boss, who has been taking French lessons, is enjoying this book and it arrived promptly and in good shape. |