The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 1
2024
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The first volume spans 400 years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the 'golden age' of the fin de siecle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals, labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and voices. From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy de Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde.
Main title:
The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 1 / edited by Patrick McGuiness.
Author:
McGuinness, Patrick, editor
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
xvii, 483 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in Allen Lane 2022.Translated from the French.
Contents:
The husband as doctor / Philippe De LaonThe substitute / Marguerite De NavarreThe true story of a woman who killed her husband and subsequently performed unheard-of acts of violence on his body / Francois De RoddetThe phantom / Jeane-Pierre CamusBluebeard / Charles PerraultLa Comtesse de Tende / Madame De LafayetteMicromegas / VoltaireThis is not a story / Denis DiderotAugustine de Villeblanche / Marquis De SadeThe nobleman / Isabelle De CharriereNo tomorrow / Vivant DenonJean-Francois les Bas-bleus / Charles NodierVanina Vanini / StendhalThe unknown woman / Marceline Desbordes-ValmoreA passion in the desert / Honore De BalzacA dead man's story told by himself / Alexandre DumasClaude Gueux / Victor HugoThe Venus of Ille / Prosper MerimeeScarbo / Aloysius BertrandDon Juan's crowning love affair / Jules Barbey D'AurevillyA dream / Xavier ForneretThe mummy's foot / Theophile GautierA simple heart / Gustave FlaubertKnock down the poor! / CXharles BaudelaireA drama in the air / Jules VerneVera / Villiers De L'isle-AdamDeath by advertising / Emile ZolaThe pipe / Stephane MallarmeThe cabinet / Charles CrosThe image hunter / Jules RenardMonsieur Bougran's retirement / Joris-Karl HuysmansOn a cure / Octave MirbeauConstant guignard / Jean RichepinThe horla / Guy De MaupassantThe time / Georges RodenbachThe man who loved consumptives / Jean LorrainThe panther / RachildeThree line novellas / Felix FeneonApropos of Hamlet / Jules LaforgueThe exhibition of tears / Leon DaudetThe san-gueles / Marcel SchwobArsene Lupin's arrest / Maurice LeblancThe mysterious correspondent / Marcel ProustNotesAuthor biographies.
ISBN:
9780241462003 (paperback)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
517190
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