Carefully chosen collection provides both the French original and new line-by-line English translations — on facing pages — of 6 great 19th-century French short stories. Merimée's Mateo Falcone, Sylvie by Nerval, Daudet's La mule du Pape, Flaubert's Hé... read more
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Carefully chosen collection provides both the French original and new line-by-line English translations — on facing pages — of 6 great 19th-century French short stories. Merimée's Mateo Falcone, Sylvie by Nerval, Daudet's La mule du Pape, Flaubert's Hérodias, L’attaque du moulin by Zola, and de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Perle. Introduction and Notes.
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