Poemes, Pieces, Prose

"Beautifully done! Good selections, extensive, broad coverage, interesting and valuable presentations. Nice textual analyses, stimulating questions and well-chosen, appropriate, attractive illustrations."--D.H. Kellander, Duquesne University "I have been using this text since it first appeared more than twenty years ago. Excellent choice of texts, background, and questions."--Lawrence Purder, Michigan State University "Nothing better--really teaches the students what literature is."--James Kaplan, Moorhead State University "Very useful textbook to introduce students to the study of French literature. The questions after the texts are most helpful and thoroug."--Machelidon Veronieve, university of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "A comprehensive text appropriate for an introduction to textual analysis, containing some good selections in all three genres."--Cynthia Hahn, Lake Forest College "Beautifully done! Good selections, extensive, broad coverage, interesting and valuable presentations. Nice textual analyses, stimulating questions and well-chosen, appropriate, attractive illustrations."--D.H. Kellander, Duquesne University "I have been using this text since it first appeared more than twenty years ago. Excellent choice of texts, background, and questions."--Lawrence Purder, Michigan State University "Nothing better--really teaches the students what literature is."--James Kaplan, Moorhead State University "Very useful textbook to introduce students to the study of French literature. The questions after the texts are most helpful and thoroug."--Machelidon Veronieve, university of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "A comprehensive text appropriate for an introduction to textual analysis, containing some good selections in all three genres."--Cynthia Hahn, Lake Forest College "Quite decent choice of texts....Introductions to writers are good."--Malina Stefanovska, University of California, Los Angeles "I like the way the book is organized: biography, literary ideas, questions, introduction to the different genres."--Monique S. Aigal, Pomona College "An excellent text."--Catherine Jones, University of Georgia "This is the best, perhaps the only, textbook for American students that truly teaches [them] how to approach French literature."--Michael Vincent, Wichita State University "Introductory chapters and commentary are very useful...."--Elisabeth Ladenson, University of Virginia