The twelve best short stories in the French language by Auguste Dorchain

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Editor Dorchain, Auguste, 1857-1930
LoC No. 20023149
Title The twelve best short stories in the French language
Original Publication London: Gowans and Gray, 1915.
Note "The third, fifth to seventh, and ninth to twelfth inclusive, of these stories have been translated by Mr. William Metcalfe; the second and fourth by Miss Measham; the eighth by Miss Lyons; while for the first an anonymous translation has been used, which was originally published in 1826, but has been considerably revised for this volume by Mr. Adam L. Gowans."--Publishers' note.
Contents Adventures of the last of the Abencerrages (1806) / Viscount Chateaubriand -- The prisoners of the Caucasus (1815) / Count Xavier de Maistre -- El Verdugo (1830) / Honoré de Balzac -- Laurette, or, The red seal (1835) / Count Alfred de Vigny -- The Venus of Ille (1837) / Prosper Mérimée -- The story of a white blackbird (1842) / Alfred de Musset -- Vanina Vanini (1855) / "Stendhal" -- The child with the bread shoes (1863) / Théophile Gautier -- The Reverend Father Gaucher's elixir (1869) / Alphonse Daudet -- The legend of Saint Julian Hospitator (1877) / Gustave Flaubert -- The gate-keeper (1883) / François Coppée -- Mademoiselle Perle (1886) / Guy de Maupassant.
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Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Short stories, French -- Translations into English
Subject French fiction -- Translations into English
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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