The twelve best short stories in the French language by Auguste Dorchain
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| Editor | Dorchain, Auguste, 1857-1930 |
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| LoC No. | 20023149 |
| Title | The twelve best short stories in the French language |
| Alternate Title | The 12 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. |
| Credits | Andrés V. Galia, GenKnit, Knysna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 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 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 74669 |
| Release Date | Nov 3, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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