Author: Guy de Maupassant
Honore De Balzac/Victor Hugo
Publisher: Jaico
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 280
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8179922219
Description
This book is a compilation of classic short stories by five great French writers – Guy De Maupassant, Honore De Balzac, Victor Hugo, Anatole France and Pierre Louys. Though not necessarily representative of the authors complete works, the stories have been carefully chosen to showcase their versatility and skill as storytellers.
The collection covers and extraordinary range of themes, styles and setting, allowing the reader to get a glimpse of another world gone by. Yet, these stories seem timeless, and the characters in them show the same foibles, fears and hopes as people in the brave new world of the 21st century.
Contents
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
Madamoiselle Pearl
Madamoiselle Fifi
Useless Beauty
The Necklace
HONORE DE BALZAC
The Merry Jests of King Louis the Eleventh
The High Constable’s Wife
The Three Clerks of St Nicholas
VICTOR HUGO
Claude Gueux King of Thieves
Monster and Infanticide
Count Mortier The Madman
An Over-Night Criminal
ANATOLE FRANCE
Putois
Marguerite
Count Morin Deputy
PIERRE LOUYS
A New Sensation
The Confession of Mademoiselle X
The Strange Adventure of Madame Esquolier
An Ascent of the Venusberg