Best known for The Red and the Black, Stendhal excelled at spinning imaginative tales of strong-willed, passionate characters within historical settings. This Dual-language edition features 2 of his best short stories: "Vanina Vanini," concerning a romance between an aristocrat and a wounded soldier, and "The Abbess of Castro," which recounts a nun's illicit liaison. Dover Original.
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Selected Short Stories (Dual-Language) by Honoré de Balzac 6 short-story masterpieces by great French novelist include "An Episode During the Terror," "A Passion in the Desert," "The Revolutionary Conscript," 3 more. Excellent new English translations on facing pages.
Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language) by Stanley Appelbaum French text and English translations — on facing pages — of 6 stories: Merimée's Mateo Falcone, Flaubert's Hérodias, L’attaque du moulin by Zola, de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Perle, 2 more. Introduction. Notes.
French Stories/Contes Francais: A Dual-Language Book by Wallace Fowlie Ten unusual stories: "Micromégas," by Voltaire; "The Atheist's Mass," by Balzac; "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler," by Flaubert; "Spleen of Paris," by Baudelaire; more. English translations appear on facing pages.
