"... a volume compiled with great care and a profound knowledge of nineteenth-century France.... [I]t should be of enormous pleasure to anyone who enjoys nineteenth-century French literature." —Nineteenth-Century French Studies "This anthology can be considered as a useful tool for students as well as for lovers of French literature, for it is informative and lucidly translated ina clear style free of jargon; furthermore it is well constructed." —Claudine Elnecave, Universite de Hafia "The works in this sampling are well selected and the translations are both accurate and very readable.... This attractive volume is well suited to a general audience and to lower-division students of comparative literature... The printing, paper, and binding are all excellent." —Choice This anthology offers translations of prose and prose poems that illustrate the great variety and richness of one of the most fruitful and exciting periods in French cultural history. Included are works by Balzac, Gautier, Maupassant, Mme de Staël, Berlioz, Baudelaire, Sand, Loti, Rimbaud—some of the best writing of 19th-century France, all introduced and annotated by Rosemary Lloyd.