Query: French novels that are either fantasy or from 1919
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Island of Thirty Coffins
La Mécanique du cœur (novel)
Le Dernier Homme
La Symphonie pastorale
La Peau de chagrin
Mount Analogue
The Barsac Mission
Les Mains d'Orlac
The Prophecy of the Stones
Planet of the Apes (novel)
Mitsou (novella)
The Wolf Leader
Atlantida (novel)
Evidence from documents: The Island of Thirty Coffins: French novels: ''The Seret of Sarek''' ('''L'Île aux trente cercueils / The Island of Thirty Coffins''') is a French novel by Maurice Leblanc, 1919.
from 1919: '''The Seret of Sarek''' ('''L'Île aux trente cercueils / The Island of Thirty Coffins''') is a French novel by Maurice Leblanc, 1919.
La Mécanique du cœur (novel): '''''La Mécanique du cœur''''' (English version: ''The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart'') is a book written by Mathias Malzieu, lead singer of the French rock band Dionysos (who have recorded a concept album based upon the story). The book has sold well in Malzieu's native France.
The book opens in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1874. Little Jack is born on the coldest day ever, which causes his heart to be frozen solid, requiring a replacement. The makeshift Doctor, Madeleine, who provides midwifery and medical services to the poor and the desperate of Edinburgh, grafts a cuckoo clock to his heart of flesh and blood in order to save it. Due to Madeleine's "clientele" the children that she delivers are sometimes unwanted, and so she puts them up for adoption to good parents. Unfortunately, nobody wants Jack because of his strange clock heart, and so he ends up living with Madeleine as his adoptive mother.
Le Dernier Homme: '''''Le Dernier Homme''''' (English: '''''The Last Man''''') is a French science fantasy novel in the form of a prose poem.
La Symphonie pastorale: '''''La Symphonie pastorale''''' is a French novella written by André Gide first published in October and November 1919 in La Nouvelle Revue Française N° 73 and N° 74.
La Peau de chagrin: '''''La Peau de chagrin''''' (, ''The Skin of Shagreen''), known in English as '''''The Wild Ass's Skin''''' is an 1831 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850).
Mount Analogue: '''''Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing''''' is a classic allegorical adventure novel by the early 20th-century French novelist René Daumal.
The Barsac Mission: '''''The Barsac Mission''''' () is a novel attributed to Jules Verne and written (with inspiration from two unfinished Verne manuscripts) by his son Michel Verne. First serialized in 1914, it was published in book form by Hachette in 1919.
Les Mains d'Orlac: '''''Les Mains d'Orlac''''' () is a French fantasy/horror novel written by Maurice Renard, first published in 1920.
The Prophecy of the Stones: '''The Prophecy of The Stones''' (published in the UK as ''The Prophecy of the Gems'') is a children's novel written by the French author Flavia Bujor.
Planet of the Apes (novel): '''''La Planète des singes''''', known in English as '''''Planet of the Apes''''' in the US and '''''Monkey Planet''''' in the UK, is a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre Boulle.
Mitsou (novella): French novels: '''''Mitsou''''' is the name of a French war-time novella that was published by Colette in 1919.
from 1919: ''''Mitsou''''' is the name of a French war-time novella that was published by Colette in 1919.
The Wolf Leader: '''''The Wolf Leader''''' is an English translation by Alfred Allinson of '''''Le Meneur de loups''''', an 1857 fantasy novel by Alexandre Dumas. Allinson's translation was first published in London by Methuen in 1904 under the title ''The Wolf-Leader''; the first American edition, edited and somewhat cut by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, was issued under the present title by Prime Press in 1950. The text was also serialized in eight parts in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in the issues for August 1931 to March 1932.
Atlantida (novel): fantasy: fantasy novel
French novels: by French writer Pierre Benoit
1919: 1919