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Mademoiselle Fifi. Mademoiselle Fifi is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant published in 1882. [1] The stories are: "Mademoiselle Fifi" "The Practical Joker" "The Door" "The Hair" "Our Letters" "Queen Hortense" "Moonlight" "The Father" "The Coup d'État" "Bed Twenty-Nine" "The Jewels" "The Baby" "The Umbrella" "The Family Circle ...
Guy de Maupassant "Mademoiselle Fifi" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant, published in 1882 in a collection of the same title.Like many of his short stories, such as Boule de Suif and Deux Amis, the story is set during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of class barriers, contrasts between the French and German participants, and the pointlessness of the war.
First edition (publ. Doubleday) Nabokov's Dozen is a 1958 collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. [1] Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.
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"Miriam" is a short story written by Truman Capote. It was originally published in the June 1945 issue of Mademoiselle . [ 1 ] " Miriam" was one of Capote's first published short stories, and in 1946 it earned an O. Henry Award in the category Best First-Published Story.
Charles Exbrayat (5 May 1906 – 8 March 1989) was a French fiction writer. He published over 100 novels and short stories, most of them humorous thrillers. They were very popular and a considerable number were turned into films.
None of the thirteen "Texts for Nothing" were given titles; they present a variety of voices thrust into the unknown. According to S. E. Gontarski: "What one is left with after the Texts for Nothing is 'nothing,' incorporeal consciousness perhaps, into which Beckett plunged afresh in English in the early 1950s to produce a tale rich in imagery but short on external coherence."
Agnes of Nothing (French: Agnès de rien) is a 1950 French drama film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Danièle Delorme, Yvonne de Bray and Paul Meurisse. [1] [2] It is based on the novel of the same title by Germaine Beaumont. [3] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond ...