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Focus Student editions: French


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Camara Laye: L'enfant noir

Myrna Bell Rochester
Natalie Schorr

Philips Academy, Andover

20051-58510-153-2 • paper • 232 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95

 

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Molière: L’École des femmes

Myrna Bell Rochester
Eileen M. Angelini

Canisius College

20061-58510-154-0 • paper • 164 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95

 

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Guy de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean

Myrna Bell Rochester
Eileen M. Angelini

Canisius College

2007 • 978-1-58510-183-2 • paper • 258 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95

 

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Voltaire: Candide ou l'Optimisme

Myrna Bell Rochester
Eileen M. Angelini

Canisius College

2008 • 978-1-58510-247-1 • paper • 232 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95

 

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 Description                                            

The Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French language courses in literature and culture. These editions, prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, include an introduction (in French) to the author and the work, the complete novel with both linguistic and cultural notes (French-French), a current bibliography and questions in the AP* format to facilitate study.

 

 Sample Pages                                         

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 Authors                                                   

Myrna Bell Rochester has degrees from the University of Chicago (Romance Languages) and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her Ph.D. in French. She studied at the Université de Genève during a four-year stay. Dr. Rochester has taught at UCLA and at Stanford University. Co-author of college textbooks and educational materials, she also lectures and publishes on topics in modern literature.

Natalie Schorr teaches at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she has served as chair of the language division. She received a diplôme d’études supérieures, mention bien, from L’Université d’Aix-Marseille and served as lectrice at L’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses. Her most recent book is Tune Up Your French: The Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Spoken French.

Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She is on the faculty at Canisius College. Dr. Angelini has won research grants from the U.S., French, and Canadian governments. She is a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences and the author of publications on literary analysis, and on pedagogy, focusing on the professions and cross-cultural communication. Dr. Angelini is a Table Leader for the AP French Language Examination and a College Board Consultant.
 

 Table of Contents                                                   

Each book contains the same basic sections. Changes are noted below.

    Introduction
    Notes stylistiques

    Laye: L'enfant noir contains:
       
La Guinée
        Dédicace: A ma mère
        L'enfant noir

    Molière: L'École des femmes contains:
        Chronologie
        Épître de Molière
        Préface de Molière
        L'École des femmes

    Guy de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean contains:
        Chronologie
        La vie maritime: Vocabularie et exercices
        Le Roman: essai de Guy de Maupassant
        Carte de la côte Normandie
        Pierre et Jean

    Voltaire: Candide ou l'Optimisme contains:
        Chronologie
        Les voyages de Candide: Carte
        Candide ou l'Optimisme
        Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne, avec sa Préface

    Activités
        Mise en train
        Choix multiple, Questions et Pistes d'exploration
        Essais / Discussions
        Tremplins
        Réponses aux questions à choix multiple
    Bibliographie
    Vocabulaire utile
    Remerciements


 Reviews                                                 

"By far the easiest and most helpful edition for American students to |follow."

"Students enjoyed reading the background information and didn't find |the questions a chore. Although I've used other editions of Maupassant's Pierre et Jean and Moliere's L'Ecole des femmes in the past, I now have all my |students use this edition only."

Deanna Scheffer at Episcopal High School, Jacksonville, FL

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