This excellent anthology offers the beginning French-language student a first taste of some of the world's most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts from such masterpieces as Les Misérables, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, Carmen, and The Three Musketeers will open new worlds for linguists. Readers will savor the words of fifty great writers of multiple genres from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries, including Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, Dumas, Proust, and other literary virtuosos. Lucid and accessible, the unabridged English translations by Stanley Appelbaum appear on pages that face the original French text. Literature lovers, French-language students, and other readers will find this volume a fascinating exploration of French literature...and an invaluable aid to mastering one of the world's most romantic languages.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780486461786
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication Date: 02-04-2008
Pages: 240
Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Series: Dover Books on Language
About the Author
A former editor-in-chief at Dover Publications, Stanley Appelbaum remains active in retirement and continues to produce his original translations of French, German, Italian, and Spanish literature.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction René Descartes Discours de la méthode / Discourse on the Method François, duc de La Rochefoucauld Maximes / Epigrams Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné Lettres / Letters Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Orasison funèbre d’Henriette-Marie / Funeral Oration for Henrietta Maria Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette La Princesse de Clèves / The Princess of Clèves Jean de La Bruyère Les caractères / The Characters Anthony Hamilton Mémoires du comte de Gramont / Memoirs of the Count of Gramont Alain-René Lesage Gil Blas de Santillane / Gil Blas de Santillana Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Le paysan parvenu / The Newly Rich Peasant Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu Lettres persanes / Persian Letters Voltaire Zadig / Zadig Antoine-François, abbé Prévost Manon Lescaut / Manon Lescaut Marie Leprince de Beaumont “La Belle et la Bête” / “Beauty and the Beast” Jean-Jacques Rousseau La nouvelle Héloïse / The New Héloïse Denis Diderot Le neveu de Rameau / Rameau’s Nephew Jean le Rond d’Alembert “Collège” (Encyclopédie) / “Secondary Education” (Encyclopaedia) Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Paul et Virginie / Paul and Virginie Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos Les liasions dangereuses / Dangerous Connections Germaine Necker, madame de Staël Corinne / Corinna Benjamin Constant Adolphe / Adolphe Francois-René, viconte de Chateaubriand René / René Stendhal Le rouge et le noir / The Red and the Black Alfred de Vigny Servitude et grandeur militaries / Constraints and Grandeur of the Military Life Honoré [de] Balzac Le lys dans la vallée / The Lily in the Valley Victor-Marie Hugo Le misérables / The Wretched of the Earth Alexandre Dumas père Le trois mousquetaires / The Three Musketeers Prosper Mérimée Carmen / Carmen George Sand La mare au diable / The Devil’s Pool Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve Volupté / Sensual Pleasure Gérard de Nerval “Sylvie” (Les filles du feu) / “Sylvie” (The Fire Maidens) Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly Ce qui ne meurt pas / That Which Does Not Die Alfred de Musset La confession d’un enfant du siècle / The Confession of a Child of the Age Théophile Gautier Le capitaine Fracasse / Captain Fracasso Eugène Fromentin Dominique / Dominique Charles Baudelaire Le spleen de Paris / The Spleen of Paris Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary / Madame Bovary Alexandre Dumas fils La dame aux camélias / The Lady with the Camellias Jules Verne Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours / Around the World in Eighty Days Jean-Marie-…, comte de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam “Duke of Portland” (Contes cruels) / “Duke of Portland” (Cruel Tales) Émile Zola Thérèse Raquin / Thérèse Raquin Alphonse Daudet “La dernière classe” (Contes du Lundi) / “The Last Class” (Monday Tales) Joris-Karl Huysmans A rebours / Against the Grain Guy de Maupassant “Denis” (Miss Harriet) / “Denis” (Miss Harriet) Henri Bergson L’évolution créatrice / Creative Evolution Jules Renard Poil de carotte / Carrot Top André Gide La symphonie pastorale / The Pastoral Symphony Marcel Proust Du côté de chez Swann / Swann’s Way Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette La maison de Claudine / Claudine’s House Roger Martin du Gard Le cahier gris / The Gray Notebook Valery Larbaud Fermina Márquez / Fermina Márquez