01769cam a2200253 4500 610968824 TxAuBib 20191104120000.0 910524s1945||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 45010263 DLC IMchF-DB IMchF-DB TxAuBib eng fre Bedside book of famous French stories / edited by Belle Becker and Robert N. Linscott ; with an introduction by Lewis Galantiere. New York : Random House, [1945] xvii, 427 p. ; 22 cm. First printing. Bibliographical notes: p. [421]-427. La grande Breteche / Honore de Balzac -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The Venus of Ille / Prosper Merimee -- The marquise / George Sand -- Mimi Pinson / Alfred de Musset -- One of Cleopatra's nights / Theophile Gautier -- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- Herodias / Gustave Flaubert -- The torture of hope / Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- The elixer of Father Gaugcher / Alphonse Daudet -- The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet -- The attack on the mill / Emile Zola -- The procurator of Judea / Anatole France -- Crainquebille / Anatole France -- The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Madame Tellier's excursion / by Guyy de Maupassant -- Vain beauty / by Guy de Maupassant -- The sacrifice / George Duhamel -- The escape / Joseph Kessel -- Prisoner of the sand / Antoine de Saint Exupery -- Tank trap / Andre Malraux -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The professor and the mussels / Edith Thomas. 20020107. Short stories, French Translations into English. Short stories. Linscott, Robert Newton, 1886- Becker, Belle.