French Short

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 20th-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.

Finding helpful and engaging material you can actually understand! That's exactly what inspired us to bundle Volume 1, 2, and 3 of our French short stories. How's a student supposed to learn when language instructors love providing challenging materials that are tough expert-level literature with tons of grammar and rules? That approach for new language learners can be overwhelming, and lead you to flip back and forth between a dictionary and your book constantly!

The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many New York Times best sellers; full of original fiction; and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson.

French à la Cart serves up short stories full of humor, heart, and linguistic adventure. Listeners can savor small bites of language or dive into deeper immersion, depending on their comfort level.

The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.

The first in a series of anthologies devoted to the Lovecraftian gods, Ordo ab Chao follows the highly successful The Gods of HP Lovecraft (published in 2015 by JournalStone Publishing). We begin our series with the primal origins and the god Azathoth, who represents primordial chaos in the Lovecraftian Mythos.

No one plumbs deeper depths of the psyche than French and Russian authors. This second wide-ranging collection of 19th-century literary masterworks, presented in their entirety, not only entertains, but provides insight into 19th-century mores and the mysteries of human nature.

The year is 1795 and Napoleon Bonaparte is a Corsican serving in the French military. His personality is fire and ice personified -- passionate, temperamental, and pragmatic to the extreme. He is engaged to Desiree Clary, or Eugenie as he affectionately nicknamed her, but the allure of Parisian women poses a temptation to seek a more strategic alliance, one that will help connect him with prominent figures that may serve his rise to power. The tables are turned on him, however, when he meets Rose de Beauharnais, a beautiful and charming widow with two children. Rose intrigues him with her ...

The ANTI-Boring way to start communicating in French in the next 30 days without memorizing words from a boring dictionary…

Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation.

An enchanting collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written by notable French authors.

« Dubliners » de son nom original est un passionnant recueil de nouvelles modernistes écrit par James Joyce qui dépeint de manière remarquable la vie quotidienne des gens de Dublin. Vivant à l'étranger mais écrivant toujours sur sa ville natale, Joyce a rendu Dublin inoubliable ! Les histoires des gens de Dublin décrivent des buveurs d'alcool, des séducteurs, des nationalistes, des commères, des politiciens corrompus et des ados oisifs qui s'efforcent de s'en sortir...

Roxie If it weren’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all Here I am, on my honeymoon in the most romantic city in the world. Alone. Sure, my no-good fiance left me at the altar for my maid of honor and best friend. Ex-best friend. Ex-fiance. Ex-old life. But I’m not about to let that stop me from having the best solo honeymoon ever. I’m in Paris for two weeks, determined to go from exes to O’s. Turns out, even a trip across the world isn’t enough to outrun my streak of bad luck. Then I find Remy. Or maybe Remy finds me. Because I may be running for my life— But I have ...

We have compiled 50 French stories along with their translations, providing new French speakers with the necessary tools to begin effectively studying how to set a meeting, how to check into a hotel, and even what to say during an emergency! Our French dialogues get straight to the point saving you precious time. There’s no benefit learning words and phrases you will never actually use!

French Short Stories for Beginners by Language Mastery has over 100 conversational French dialogues and daily used phrases to learn the French language in the easiest and entertaining way.

"The Fables" of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature. "The Fables" supply delights to three different ages: the child rejoices in the freshness and vividness of the story, the eager student of literature in the consummate art with which it is told, the experienced man of the world in the subtle reflections on character and life which it conveys. "The Fables" were regarded as providing an excellent education in morals for children, and the first edition was dedicated to the six-year old Dauphin, the Eldest Son of the King.

Desserts are Yummy. Get your copy of the best and most unique Dessert recipes from BookSumo Press! Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply. In this book we focus on Desserts. Yummy Desserts is a complete set of simple but very unique Dessert recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing. Besides recipes you will learn about the following: Dessert Baking Techniques Exploring Classic Biscuits Exploring Savory Biscuits ...

No one plumbs deeper depths of the psyche than French and Russian authors. This wide-ranging collection of 19th-century literary masterworks, presented in their entirety, not only entertains, but provides insight into 19th-century mores and the mysteries of human nature.

Even if you have never spoken or written in French, no need to worry because this book was designed specifically for people like you. In fact, by purchasing this book, you will have the big advantage that only this book offers, that it is the parallel translation of the stories in English, which will definitively cancel any difficulty in understanding and memorizing the text that you might encounter by purchasing other books.

Douze histoires variées, pleines d'émotions ou d'humour, pour les plus grands (8-12 ans). Au sommaire : "Émile et le microbe", "Le bracelet d'Anna", "Mes trois araignées", "Grenouille en prison", "Amour et chewing-gum", "L'anniversaire d'Alex", "Un chat toujours à l'heure", "Le mystère de la poubelle du 16 bis", "Adriane", "Qui a effacé mes exercices d'anglais ?", "Conversation avec un escargot", "Mon 'six cents pattes' ".