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Excerpt from Selected Stories: Including La Belle-Nivernaise There is fortunately no need to insist upon the pecu liar advantages that Alphonse Daudet's stories possess as linguistic and cultural material for instruction in sec ondary school and college. The editor believes, with the authors of the Report of the Committee of Twelve, that the literature used in the early years should be as near the spoken language as possible; that the pupil's contact with artificial and rhetorical forms of expression should come later, and only after the colloquial basis has been well secured. For early reading, therefore, preference may properly be given to lively, realistic narrative, with plenty of dialogue. Alphonse Daudet's text not only fulfills these requirements, but the value of his every page is further enhanced by his sure literary taste, his wholesome outlook upon life, his infectious humor and his delicate sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.