The siege of Berlin and other stories
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Le siège de Berlin: et autres conts
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781419182488
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Modern fiction; Short Stories (Anthologies); Fiction; Fiction - General; Humorous
First sentence: WE were going up Avenue des Champs-Elysees with Dr. V-, asking the shell-riddled walls, and the sidewalks torn up by grape-shot, for the story of the siege of Paris, when, just before we reached the Rond-point de l'Etoile, the doctor stopped and, pointing to one of the great corner houses so proudly grouped about the Arc de Triomphe, said to me: Do you see those four closed windows up there on that balcony?