These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life & literature & are accompanied by a parallel English text making them valuable for both French & English language students. Among the diverse & entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece Green Tobacco" by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of " The Ants" by the post-war king of cafe society Boris Vian & a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues."