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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. In 1950 she moved to paris to pursue her dream and remained there as an expat breathing in. The selected stories of mavis gallant mavis gallant. Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in english today, mavis gallant s fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in europe and north america. Read the collected stories by mavis gallant available from rakuten kobo. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.
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