SHORT-STORY MASTERPIECES

VOLUME I—FRENCH

DONE INTO ENGLISH AND WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY

J. BERG ESENWEIN
EDITOR OF LIPPINCOTT’S MAGAZINE

The Home Correspondence School
Springfield, Massachusetts
1912

Copyright 1911 and 1912—J. B. Lippincott Company
Copyright 1912—The Home Correspondence School
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

Page
General Introduction: The French Short-Story[3]
François Coppée and His Work[21]
Story: The Substitute[33]
Guy de Maupassant, Realist[53]
Story: Moonlight[61]
Alphonse Daudet, Man and Artist[71]
Story: The Pope’s Mule[85]
Prosper Mérimée, Impersonal Analyst[101]
Story: The Taking of the Redoubt[113]
Pierre Loti, Colorist[123]
Story: The Marriage to the Sea[137]