Parallel Text: French Short Stories - Nouvelles Francaises

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 caf-ociety, Boris Vian, and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues.