| Description |
xvii, 427 pages ; 22 cm |
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"First printing." |
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"Biographical notes": p. [421]-427. |
| Contents |
La grande bretêche ; An episode of the terror / Honoré de Balzac -- The Venus of Ille / Prosper Mérimée -- The marquise / George Sand -- Mimi Pinson / Alfred de Musset -- One of Cleopatra's nights / Théophile Gautier -- A simple heart ; Herodias / Gustave Flaubert -- The torture of hope / Villiers de L'isle-Adam -- The elixer of Father Gaucher ; The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet -- The attack on the mill / Emile Zola -- The procurator of Judæa ; Crainquebille / Anatole France -- The diamond necklece ; Madame Tellier's excursion ; Vain beauty / Guy de Maupassant -- The sacrifice / Georges Duhamel -- The escape / Joseph Kessel -- Prisoner of the sand / Antoine de Saint Exupéry -- Tank trap / André Malraux -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The professor and the mussels / Edith Thomas. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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French fiction -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, French.
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| Added Author |
Linscott, Robert N. (Robert Newton), 1886-1964 editor.
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