{"product_id":"six-of-the-best-the-french-author-audiobook","title":"Six of the Best - The French Author (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSix of the Best - The French Author (Audiobook)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Eliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 03:39mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Emile Zola, Voltaire, Anatole France \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSix has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuch is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvelous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this concise and essential volume are six gems of literature that perhaps only the authors of France could have created. Within their short stories are the real flavours and atmosphere, together with the fascinating culture and landscape of this unique country. With its long history, its people and, of course, its writers, who weave beguiling narratives of wonder and words around characters and their journeys, then there is genius in every name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 - The French Author - Six of the Best - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 - Mother Sauvage (La Mere Sauvage) by Guy de Maupassant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 - The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 - Three Wars by Emile Zola\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 - Jeannot and Colin by Voltaire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 - The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43435551588430,"sku":"AB-71525","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/small9781806371525_Six_of_the_Best_-_The_French_Author.jpg?v=1773054563","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/six-of-the-best-the-french-author-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}