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International Short Stories: French

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Book Overview: 

The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de Balzac, Voltaire, Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo and more. Compiled and translated by Francis J. Reynolds.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Why, no, I was not present——' 'That will do. I am well informed, come.' 'Where to?' 'To my newspaper office.' 'What for?' 'To tell me about the murder.' 'But I've already told all I know, there, in that house.' 'Come, you will still remember a few more little incidents—and I will give you twenty francs.' 'Twenty francs!' 'Come, come.' Another hall, another table, more young men writing, and again Joseph was interrogated. He recommenced the history of the old Colonel. 'Is that what you told them down there?' inquired the tall, dark man of Joseph. 'Yes, Monsieur.' 'That needs some revision, then.' And the tall, dark man made up a long story. How this old Colonel had been paralyzed for fourteen years, but on hearing the victim's heartrending screams, received such a shock that all at once, as if by a miracle, had recovered the use of his legs; and it was he who had started out in pursuit of the murderer and had him arrested.

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4.00
- Aurel - Nov 18, 2014

I took several weeks to read this book because each short story in it deserves a bit of time to properly digest. It didn't seem right to read more than one a day and I don't think I would have appreciated it nearly as much had I taken in the entire thing at once. Many of the stories in this collecti

2.00
- Julie - Mar 19, 2022

It is hard to rate a book of short stories by different authors accurately, but I think overall I have to give it 2 stars, or 2.5 stars. Some stories were better than others. Some were horrible. Some had dark endings. And some I feel like I didn’t quite ‘get’ the message that the author was trying t

2.00
- Dione - Aug 22, 2017

I'm sure 9 out of 10 readers will pick this book up purely because it's a collection of old French stories. If so, good for you. You probably got exactly what you wanted, even if the stories are in English. (I mean, if you only speak French, not English, then probably not good.) But for me...just ge

3.00
- Jim - May 29, 2016

Late 18th through 19th century French short stories. Interesting to see the development of the genre through that period. The stories generally have a fable like quality even when written in the literary genre of realism. The influence of Poe is evident in at least one story. Another story is refere

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