<div>Joyeux No&euml;l: &ldquo;[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France&rsquo;s most esteemed writers&#8213;past and present&#8213;skillfully translated.&rdquo; &#8213;Foreword Reviews This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Ir&egrave;ne N&eacute;mirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France 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 Christmas &agrave; la fran&ccedil;aise&mdash;delicious, intense and unexpected.</div>

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A Very French Christmas

<div>Classic ghost stories of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and others.In 1920, acclaimed author and editor Dorothy Scarborough collected what she believed to be the finest ghost stories of her time. Her quintessential anthology Famous Modern Ghost Stories includes entries from such pioneering horror writers as Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, and Myla Jo Closser. As Scarborough says in her introduction to this volume: &ldquo;Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time.&rdquo; The deceased and their mysterious spirits prove to be a source of endless fascination in the stories collected here, including Leonid Andreyev&rsquo;s biblical speculation Lazarus; Fitz-James O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s gothic evocation of a New York City boarding house, What Was It?; Mary. E. Wilkins Freeman&rsquo;s haunting narrative of three sisters, The Shadows on the Wall; and others.</div>

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<div>An ambitious man ascends the ranks of French society through a series of duplicitous affairs in this nineteenth&ndash;century novel of greed, sex, and power. A journalist and former cavalry officer in French Algeria, Georges Duroy is young, handsome, and ruthlessly cunning. Born to humble parents in Normandy, Duroy acquires inside knowledge of Parisian society and politics through his friendship with Madeleine Forestier, the wife of a former comrade. Forestier helps Duroy attain status and professional success by leveraging her contacts and writing some of his articles. They marry soon after, only for her to later become his nemesis. A vividly rendered portrait of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic, Bel Ami is a timeless tale of corruption and shameless manipulation. First published in 1885, it established Guy de Maupassant&rsquo;s reputation as one of France&rsquo;s great novelists.</div>

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