Great French Short Stories

THE INVISIBLE MAN, H. G. Wells. 112pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 27071-8

  THE TIME MACHINE, H. G. Wells. 80pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 28472-7

  THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, H. G. Wells. 160pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 29506-0

  ETHAN FROME, Edith Wharton. 96pp. 26690-7

  SHORT STORIES, Edith Wharton. 128pp. 28235-X

  THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, Edith Wharton. 288pp. 29803-5

  THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde. 192pp. 27807-7

  JACOB’S ROOM, Virginia Woolf. 144pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 40109-X

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  1 Pilone.

  2 The caporali were formerly the chiefs appointed by the Corsican commoners when they revolted against their feudal lords. Today, this name is still sometimes given to a man who, through his property and his connections by marriage and in business, exerts an influence and a sort of de facto magistracy over a pieve or a canton. By ancient custom, Corsicans are divided into five castes: gentlemen (of whom some are magnifici, others signori), caporali, citizens, plebeians, and foreigners.

  3 Here this word is synonymous with “outlaw.”

  4 This is a corps formed by the government only a few years ago; it polices the countryside concurrently with the gendarmerie.

  5 At the time the uniform of these voltigeurs was a brown outfit with a yellow collar.

  6 A leather belt that serves as a cartridge pouch and wallet.

  7 Perchè me c . . .?

  8 Buon giorno, fratello, the customary greeting in Corsica.

  9 A word play with reference to a humorous song text by Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857), “Le roi d’Yvetot,” about a very plain-living, jolly king with a sweetheart named Jeanneton. (Yvetot is a small town in Normandy.)—Trans.

  10 Every French commentator gleefully points out that Châteauneuf and Avignon are on the same side of the Rhône, so that this crossing of the bridge is an error (or a fantasy?).—Trans. 3 Warmed-up red wine with sugar, cinnamon, and other flavorings.—Trans.

  11 The French word here, “pécaïre!,” is a typically Provençal exclamation.—Trans.

  12 A fictitious village mentioned in several of the Letters from My Windmill stories.—Trans.

  13 Jeanne I of Anjou, ruler of the Kingdom of Naples from 1343 to 1382.—Trans.

  14 The theologian appointed to plead against a candidate for canonization; the entire ceremony here is wildly exaggerated in a spirit of burlesque.—Trans.

  15 A mountain in the same modern départment as Avignon (Vaucluse).—Trans.

  16 Wetlands in the delta of the Rhône.—Trans.