French Short Stories

London: Folio Society, 1998. Quarto in multi-color cloth; xiv, 412 pages: color illustrations; 25 cm Very fine (appears unread) in fine(-) original slipcase. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781859581179, 185958117X

Contents: Introduction. The boy who bedded his mother and his sister / Marguerite de Navarre. Cosi-Sancta: a little ill for a great good / Voltaire. The self-made cuckold, or The unexpected reconciliation / Marquis de Sade. Dead man's combe / Charls Nodier. The Duchess of Palliano / Stendhal. An episode of the Reign of Terror / Honoré de Balzac. The adventures of seven stars on earth / Alexandre Dumas. Claude Gueux, king of thieves / Victor Hugo. The Etruscan vase / Prosper Mériée. Medical advice / Charles de Bernard. The greatest love of Don Juan / Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. Mimi Pinson / Alfred de Musset. The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier. A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert. In the twenty-ninth century: the day of an American journalist in 2889 / Jules Verne. The desire to be a man / Villier de l'Isle-Adam. The stars / Alphonse Daudet. The attack on the mill / Émile Zola. The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France. Miss Harriet / Guy de Maupassant. The work of a lifetime / Edmond Haraucourt. The veiled man / Marcel Schwob. A youn girl's confession / Marcel Proust. Green sealing-wax / Colette. The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre. The guest / Albert Camus. Acknowledgements. Notes: Title on slip case: Classic short stories.