A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

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Overview

A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant volume featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates Noël. This is Christmas à la française—delicious, intense and unexpected—proving that nobody does Christmas like the French.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781939931504
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Publication date: 10/10/2017
Series: Very Christmas Series , #2
Pages: 142
Sales rank: 396,376
Product dimensions: 7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a prolific French writer best remembered as a master of the short story and a father of the genre. He delighted in clever plotting and served as a model for later short story practitioners through favorites such as "The Necklace," "The Horla," "The False Gems," and "Useless Beauty." Maupassant wrote some 300 short stories, as well as six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.

Table of Contents

Featuring stories by Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Montpassant, Anatole France, Irène Némirovsky, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Dominique Fabre, Paul Arène, François Coppée, Antoine Gustave Droz and Anatole Le Braz, this collection will warm the cockles of your heart and burn the bottom of your feet with succulent feasts, yuletide tragedy and Parisian cheer, and more than a few glasses of red wine.
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