A Very French Christmas by Guy de Maupassant audiobook

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

Stories by Guy de Maupassant , Alphonse Daudet , and others
Read by Jean Brassard

Blackstone Publishing 9781939931504

The Very Christmas Series

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9781538438992

  • ISBN: 9781538438985

  • ISBN: 9781538439005

Runtime: 4.92 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

A continuation of the popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky, contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel, and others.

With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates the holiday spirit.

This is Christmas à la française—delicious, intense, and unexpected, proving that nobody does Christmas like the French.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“[An] endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France’s most esteemed writers—past and present—skillfully translated.” Foreword Reviews
“The Christmas themes are treated with a refreshing originality and variety, and I can imagine returning to reread this collection for many Christmases to come.” Fictional 100

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Author

Author Bio: Guy de Maupassant

Author Bio: Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was a popular nineteenth-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form’s finest exponents. A protégé of Flaubert, his stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouement. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some three hundred short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.

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Author Bio: Alphonse Daudet

Author Bio: Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) was a French novelist and the father of writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. He is regarded as one of the most iconic names in French literature.

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Author Bio: Anatole France

Author Bio: Anatole France

Anatole France (1844–1924), the nom de plume of Anatole-Francois Thibault, began his literary career working for a publisher and writing weekly articles for the Univers Illustré. His first book of poems, Les poèms dorés, was published in 1875, and his first successful novel, Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, appeared in 1881 and won a prize from the French Academy. The most prominent French man of letters of his time, he was elected to the French Academy in 1896, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921 for “the most remarkable literary work of idealistic stamp.”

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 4.92
Audience: Adult
Language: English