Bedside book of famous French stories
By: edited by Belle Becker and Robert N. Linscott, with an introduction by Lewis Galantiere.
Contributors: Linscott, Robert Newton, 1886- joint ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Short stories; French fiction -- Translations into English
Notes: "First printing."
"Biographical notes": p. [421]-427.
Table of contents: title: La grande bretêche ; An episode of the terror -- Honoré de Balzac; title: The Venus of Ille -- Prosper Mérimée; title: The marquise -- George Sand; title: Mimi Pinson -- Alfred de Musset; title: One of Cleopatra's nights -- Théophile Gautier; title: A simple heart ; Herodias -- Gustave Flaubert; title: The torture of hope -- Villiers de L'isle-Adam; title: The elixer of Father Gaucher ; The last lesson -- Alphonse Daudet; title: The attack on the mill -- Emile Zola; title: The procurator of Judæa ; Crainquebille -- Anatole France; title: The diamond necklece ; Madame Tellier's excursion ; Vain beauty -- Guy de Maupassant; title: The sacrifice -- Georges Duhamel; title: The escape -- Joseph Kessel; title: Prisoner of the sand -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry; title: Tank trap -- André Malraux; title: The wall -- Jean-Paul Sartre; title: The professor and the mussels -- Edith Thomas.