Cruel tales

Author(s)

• Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, comte de
• Raitt, A. W. (Alan William)

Bibliographic Information

Cruel tales

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam ; translated by Robert Baldick ; with an introduction and notes by A.W. Raitt

（The world's classics）

Oxford University Press, 1985, c1963

Other Title

Contes cruels

Uniform Title

Contes cruels

Note

Originally published: 1963

Bibliography: p. [xv]-xvii

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of 27 stories is the only edition available in English. Villiers was much admired by contemporaries such as Yeats and Verlaine. Some of these tales are exotic and mythical while others convey a picture of glittering Paris life. The text and introduction of this edition were previously published in the Oxford Library of French Classics.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA0697082X
• ISBN:
  • 0192816969
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 288 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ2476.V4
  • DC19 : 843/.8
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Short stories in French, 1848-1900 - English texts
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00232564