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    The Best French Short Stories
    The Best French Short Stories
    The Best French Short Stories
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Best French Short Stories

    Written by Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant and Anatole France

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    An enchanting collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written by notable French authors.

    "Zodomirsky’s Duel", by Alexandre Dumas
    "Mademoiselle Fifi", by Guy de Maupassant
    "The Marquise", by George Sand
    "Miss Harriet", by Guy de Maupassant
    "The Cord", by Charles Baudelaire
    "The Piece of String", by Guy de Maupassant
    "The Necklace", by Guy de Maupassant
    "An Episode of the Reign of Terror", by Honoré de Balzac
    "A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
    "In the Reign of Terror", by Anatole France
    "Jeannot and Colin", by Voltaire
    "The Mummy’s Foot", by Théophile Gautier
    "The Paradise of Cats", by Emile Zolà
    "The Shoulders of the Marquise", by Emile Zolà
    "Jenny", by Victor Hugo
    "The Child with the Bread Shoes", by Théophile Gautier
    "The Reverend Father Gaucher's Elixir", by Alphonse Daudet
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJul 10, 2014
    ISBN9781467682053
    The Best French Short Stories
    Author

    Victor Hugo

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is one of the most well-regarded French writers of the nineteenth century. He was a poet, novelist and dramatist, and he is best remembered in English as the author of Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Hugo was born in Besançon, and became a pivotal figure of the Romantic movement in France, involved in both literature and politics. He founded the literary magazine Conservateur Littéraire in 1819, aged just seventeen, and turned his hand to writing political verse and drama after the accession to the throne of Louis-Philippe in 1830. His literary output was curtailed following the death of his daughter in 1843, but he began a new novel as an outlet for his grief. Completed many years later, this novel became Hugo's most notable work, Les Misérables.

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      The book description missed a title, which I only noticed it cuz it is one of my favourite piece in this book. It’s the second last story ,called “the last lesson” by alphonse Daudet. Absolutely brilliant story in this brilliant collection of short stories. Recommend this book to everyone.

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