SHORT-STORY MASTERPIECES
Reading edition
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