First French Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language French)
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Editor: Stanley AppelbaumEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-04
ISBN: 0486461785
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: A Delicious Smorgasbord
Summary: 5 Stars
Appelbaum's *First French Reader* is a delightful dual-language sampling of works by significant modern French authors. In addition to the authors listed in the product description, one will also find works by René Descartes, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Jules Verne, Émile Zola, and Alphonse Daudet (and numerous others). The selections are short: Most are approximately two pages long.
Buy this book if you are contemplating studying French literature and are unsure as to which authors suit your taste and reading ability. Surely you will find one or more in this collection that will whet your appetite for their longer works.
Be sure to read Appelbaum's introduction, which provides concise commentary on each author and provides a little context for their work. As he cautions, the ordering for the works is based on the writers' dates of birth: Appelbaum does not attempt to order or grade them based on difficulty (because "difficulty" is in the eyes of the individual reader).
So go ahead and enjoy tasting each one. Appelbaum's able English translations will surely prevent your contracting any form of indigestion.
Summary of First French Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language French)
This excellent anthology introduces newcomers to 50 great writers. Beginners can get their first taste of Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Proust with passages from The Red and the Black, Les Misérables, Madame Bovary, and other classics. Original French text plus English translation on facing pages. Introduction, new English translations, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum.
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