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A very French Christmas : the greatest French holiday stories of all time. by Blondel, Jean-Philippe,1964-author.(CARDINAL)690613; Arène, Paul,1843-1896,author.(CARDINAL)745962; Coppée, François,1842-1908,author.(CARDINAL)730091; Le Braz, Anatole,1859-1926,author.(CARDINAL)733871; Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893,author.(CARDINAL)143323; abre, Dominiquea,author.; Daudet, Alphonse,author.; Droz, Antoine Gustave,author.; France, Anatole,1844-1924,author.(CARDINAL)152070; Némirovsky, Irène,1903-1942,author.(CARDINAL)681328;
The gift / Jean-Philippe Blondel -- St. Anthony and his pig / Paul Arène --The Louis d'Or / François Coppée --Christmas in Algiers / Anatole Le Braz --the wooden shoes of Little Wolff / François Coppée --Christmas eve / Guy de Maupassant --Christmas at the boarding school / Dominique Fabre --Salvette and Bernadou ; A Christmas miracle in the Marais / Alphonse Daudet --A miracle / Guy de Maupassant --I take my supper with my wife / Antoine Gustave Droz --The lost child / François Coppée --The juggler of Notre Dame / Anatole France --Noël / Irène Némirovsky.This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time. Features 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, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates the holiday spirit. This is Christmas a la francaise-delicious, intense and unexpected, proving that nobody does Christmas like the French. (WorldCAT)
Subjects: Short stories.; Christmas stories, French; Short stories, French;
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Alphonse Daudet / by Roche, Alphonse V.(Alphonse Victor),1895-(CARDINAL)221742;
Bibliography: pages 179-186.
Subjects: Biographies.; Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897.;
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Living in Provence / by Stoeltie, Barbara,author,photographer.; Stoeltie, Rene,author,photographer.; Taschen, Angelika,editor.;
Nestled in the south of France, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, is a land renowned for its lavender fields, fine cuisine, golden sun, and dreamy landscapes. The region of Provence has inspired such masters as Alphonse Daudet and Vincent van Gogh. So enthralled was Paul Cezanne by the Mont Sainte-Victoire that he immortalized it in a series of paintings. We enter his Provence studio, which still looks the same as it did over a century ago, as well as the house where Frederic Mistral, 1904 Nobel Prize winner, lived and wrote. We also admire the wrought-iron staircase and embroidered curtains of the Hotel Nord-Pinus in Arles, which hosted the likes of Napoleon III, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso. This updated edition gathers the region's most remarkable homes and interiors, complete with insightful captions, enthralling double spreads, and brand new photography. Across picturesque villages perched atop rocky hillsides, quaint gardens filled with olive trees and the heady scent of lavender, tiled rooftop terraces and warm, ochre tones: this book paints a gorgeous picture of Provencal living.
Subjects: Interior architecture.; Interior decoration.;
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Fairy tales for the disillusioned : enchanted stories from the French decadent tradition / by Schultz, Gretchen,1960-editor,translator.(CARDINAL)654751; Seifert, Lewis Carl,editor,translator.(CARDINAL)435593;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249).TALES. Charles Baudelaire: Fairies' gifts -- Alphonse Daudet: The fairies of France -- Catulle Mendes: Dreaming beauty ; Isolina / Isolin ; The way to heaven ; An unsuitable guest ; The three good fairies ; The last fairy ; The lucky find ; The wish granted, Alas! -- Jules Lemaitre: The suitors of princess Mimi ; Liette's notions ; On the margins of Perrault's fairy tales : The white rabbit and the four-leaf clover -- Paul Arene: The ogresses -- Jules Ricard: Fairy Morgane's tales : Nocturne II -- Marcel Schwob: Bluebeard's little wife ; The green she-devil ; Cice ; Mandosiane -- Willy: Fairy tales for the disillusioned -- Henri de Regnier: The Llving door knocker -- Rachilde: The mortis -- Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen: Sleeping beauty didn't wake up -- Jean Lorrain: Princess of the red lilies ; Princess snowflower ; Mandosiane in captivity -- Renee Vivien: Prince charming -- Albert Mockel: The story of the prince of Valandeuse ; The pleasant surprise -- Pierre Veber: The last fairy ; Anatole France: The seven wives of bluebeard ; The story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin -- Emile Bergerat: The 28-kilometer boots ; Cinderella arrives by automobile -- Guillaume Apollinaire: Cinderella continued, or the rat and the six lizards -- Claude Cahun: Cinderella, the humble and haughty child."The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished in France in the late nineteenth century. Written by such creative luminaries as Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Guillaume Apollinaire, these enchanting yet troubling stories reflect the concerns and fascinations of a time of great political, social, and cultural change. Recasting well-known favorites from classic French fairy tales, as well as Arthurian legends and English and German tales, the updated interpretations in this collection allow for more perverse settings and disillusioned perspectives--a trademark style and ethos of the decadent tradition. In these stories, characters puncture the optimism of the naive, talismans don't work, and the most deserving don't always get the best rewards. The fairies are commonly victims of modern cynicism and technological advancement, but just as often are dangerous creatures corrupted by contemporary society. The collection underlines such decadent themes as the decline of civilization, the degeneration of magic and the unreal, gender confusion, and the incursion of the industrial. The volume editors provide an informative introduction, biographical notes for each author, and explanatory notes throughout. Subverting the conventions of the traditional fairy tale, these old tales made new will entertain and startle even the most disenchanted readers."--Jacket.
Subjects: Fiction.; Children's stories, French; Fairy tales; French fiction; French fiction;
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A treasury of short stories : favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway with biographical sketches of the authors / by Kielty, Bernardine.(CARDINAL)180494;
Yermolai and the miller's wife (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev) -- The death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi) -- A day in the country (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov) -- A passion in the desert (Honore de Balzac) -- A simple heart (Gustave Flaubert) -- Two little soldiers (Guy de Maupassant) -- The last lesson (Alphonse Daudet) -- Our lady's juggler (Anatole France) -- The steadfast tin soldier (Hans Christian Andersen) -- Germelshausen (Friedrich Gerstacker) -- The Saint Joseph's ass (Giovanni Verga) -- A lodging for the night (Robert Louis Stevenson) -- Quattrocentisteria (Maurice Hewlett) -- The red-headed league (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) -- Without benefit of clergy (Rudyard Kipling) -- The tragedy of a comic song (Leonard Merrick) -- The money box (W.W. Jacobs) -- The secret sharer (Joseph Conrad) -- The cask of amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) -- The horseman in the sky (Ambrose Bierce) -- The Hilton's holiday (Sarah Orne Jewett) -- The Griffin and the minor canon (Frank Stockton) -- The pace of the youth (Stephen Crane) -- To build a fire (Jack London) -- The coming out of Maggie (O.Henry) -- The altar of the dead (Henry James) -- Afterward (Edith Wharton) -- Sorrow-acre (Isak Dinesen) -- The storyteller (Frank O'Connor) -- The old hunter (Liam O'Flaherty) -- Sinners (Sean O'Faolain) -- The rocking horse winner (D.H. Lawrence) -- The doll's house (Katherine Mansfield) -- Mackintosh (W. Somerset Maugham) -- Young Archimedes (Aldous Huxley) -- Bella Flease gave a party (Evelyn Waugh) -- Joining Charles (Elizabeth Bowen) -- Beware of the dog (Roald Dahl) -- The mezzotint (M.R. James) -- The story of a panic (E.M. Forster) -- The open window ("Saki" H.H. Munro) -- The beckoning fair one (Oliver Onions) -- A haunted house (Virginia Woolf) -- Adam and Eve and Pinch me (A. E. Coppard) -- The voice in the night (William Hope Hodgson) -- Bird of prey (John Collier) -- I'm a fool (Sherwood Anderson) -- Some like them cold (Ring Lardner) -- Blood pressure (Damon Runyon) -- Babylon revisited (F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- Night club (Katharine Brush) -- A telephone call (Dorothy Parker) -- The snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway) -- The leader of the people (John Steinbeck) -- Price's always open (John O'Hara) -- The Tuxedos (Jerome Weidman) -- Act of faith (Irwin Shaw) -- The secret life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber) -- Sacre du Printemps (Ludwig Bemelmans) -- Seventy thousand assyrians (William Saroyan) -- O'Halloran's luck (Stephen Vincent Benet) -- Tom Whipple (Walter D. Edmonds) -- Silent snow, secret snow (Conrad Aiken) -- Sex education (Dorothy Canfield) -- The petrified man (Eudora Welty) -- The hound (William Faulkner) -- No door (Thomas Wolfe) -- Saturday afternoon (Erskine Caldwell) -- Almos' a man (Richard Wright) -- The old order (Katherine Anne Porter).
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; Manners and customs; Short stories, English;
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