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Volume I explores all of the topics typically covered in undergraduate courses

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First French Reader was perfectly suited to theThis excellent anthology offers the beginning French language student a first taste of some of the world's most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts from such masterpieces as Les Misrables, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, Carmen, and The Three Musketeers will open new worlds for linguists. Readers will savor the words of fifty great writers of multiple genres from the seventeenth through twentieth