This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: France.

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This book contains:

- Guy de Maupassant:

- The Necklace

- Mademoiselle Fifi

- Miss Harriet

- My Uncle Jules

- Boule de Suif

- The Wreck

- The Hand

- Émile Zola:

- Captain Burle

- The Miller's Daughter

- Jean Gourdon's Four Days

- The Fete At Coqueville

- The Flood

- Death of Olivier Becaille

- Nana

- Pierre Louÿs:

- Woman and Puppy.

- The New Pleasure.

- Byblis.

- Leda.

- Immortal Love.

- The Artist Triumphant.

- The Hill Of Horsel.

- Theóphile Gautier:

- Clarimonde

- The Mummy's Foot

- One Of Cleopatra's Night

- Omphale: A Rococo Story

- King Candaules

- Arria Marcella

- The Romance of a Mummy

- Honoré de Balzac:

- The Red Inn

- El Verdugo

- The Atheist's Mass

- La Grande Bretèche

- The Elixir of Life

- Study of a Woman

- Domestic Peace