A French Christmas - Festive Tales for a Joyeux Noël

Joyeux noel! Merry Christmas! These festive stories welcome Christmas a la francaise - delicious, chic and unexpected. Sparkling Parisian streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, oysters, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine: this collection of stories proves that the French have truly mastered Christmas. Bringing together the best French Christmas stories of all time, this lovely book includes classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century author Irene Nemirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. Let these generous, joyous stories transport you and your loved ones into the heart of a very French Christmas. Includes stories by Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, Irene Nemirovsky, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Paul Arene, Francois Coppee, Anatole Le Braz, Dominique Fabre, Alphonse Daudet and Antoine Gustave Droz.

Product details

• Authors: Guy de Maupassant, Various
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9781784879914
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-991-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 185 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage Christmas Tales
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Christmas, FICTION / Holidays, France, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Gift books, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), FICTION / World Literature / France / General, Classic fiction: general and literary