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Classiques d'aujourd'hui brings the greatest works of modern French fiction to American readers in a practical, new format. The complete texts in the original French are made more accessible thanks to analytic introductions, explicatory notes, short critical bibliographies, all presented in English by leading specialists. With Classiques d'aujourd'hui, the masterpieces of the French novel of the 19th and 20th Centuries become readily available and more fully understandable to American readers of French literature. (back cover)