Great Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories

by Angel Flores (Editor)

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Unusual compilation represents trends toward the fantastic and the macabre, expressionism and surrealism. Features 17 imaginative selections by lesser-known, yet often influential, writers. "Adolphe," by Benjamin Constant; "Gaspard de la Nuit," Aloysius Bertrand; "Salome," Jules Laforgue; "The Anatomist," by Petrus Borel, and 13 more by de Kock, Mery, Soulie, Bloy, others. Introductory notes.

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Angel Flores
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Bertrand, Aloysius (Contributor)
Bloy, Léon (Contributor)
Borel, Petrus (Contributor)
Chatrian, Alexandre (Contributor)
Constant, Benjamin (Contributor)
de Kock, Paul (Contributor)
de Maupassant, Guy (Contributor)
de Nerval, Gérard (Contributor)
Ducasse, Isadore (Contributor)
Erckmann, Émile (Contributor)
Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau (Contributor)
Laforgue, Jules (Contributor)
Lemaître, Jules (Contributor)
Méry, Joseph (Contributor)
Renard, Jules (Contributor)
Soulié, Frédéric (Contributor)
Sue, Eugéne (Contributor)
Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Auguste (Contributor)

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Original title
Nineteenth-Century French Tales
Alternate titles
Great Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories
Original publication date
1960
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Contains:
  • Adolphe / Benjamin Constant
  • Jenny / Paul de Kock
  • Scientist and the Crocodile (Le savant et le crocodile) / Joseph Méry
  • Physiology of a General Lover (Le lion amoureux) / Frédéric So... (show all)ulié
  • Kernok, the Corsair (Kernok le pirate) / Eugène Sue
  • Gaspard de la Nuit / Aloysius Bertrand
  • Émilie / Gérard de Nerval
  • Anatomist (Don Andréa Vésalius, l'anatomiste) / Pétrus Borel
  • War with the Turcomans (La guerre des Turcomans) / Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau
  • Mysterious Sketch (L'esquisse mystérieuse) / Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
  • Vera / Auguste Villiers de l'Isle Adam
  • Maldoror (Les chants de Maldoror) / Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont
  • Who Knows? (Qui sait ?) / Guy de Maupassant
  • Party Favor (La fève) / Léon Bloy
  • Nausicaa / Jules Lemaître
    • Salomé / Jules Laforgue
  • Dark Lantern (La lanterne sourde) / Jules Renard

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
DDC/MDS
843.0108 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction By Type Short stories
LCC
PZ1 .F64 .N — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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