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French Short Stories 1: Parallel Text

French Short Stories, Volume 1 / Nouvelles françaises, tome 1

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French Short Stories 1: Parallel Text

French Short Stories, Volume 1 / Nouvelles françaises, tome 1

Penned By Pamela Lyon
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Editor's Note:
The eight short stories in this collection, by Marcel Ayme, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Raymond Queneau and other French writers, have been selected for their literary merit and as representative of twentieth-century French writing. The English translations that are printed in a parallel text are literal rather than literary, and there are additional notes on the text.This volume is intended primarily to help English-speaking students of French, but the stories also stand on their own and make excellent reading in either language.

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