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Contes cruels (Cruel Tales) is a two-volume set of about 150 tales and short stories by the 19th-century French writer Octave Mirbeau, collected and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet and published in two volumes in 1990 by Librairie Séguier.
Some critics use the label to refer only to non-supernatural horror stories, especially those that have nasty climactic twists, but it is applicable to any story whose conclusion exploits the cruel aspects of the 'irony of fate.' [1] The collection from which the short-story genre of the conte cruel takes its name is Contes cruels (1883, tr ...
Manuscript of "Puss in Boots" from Histoires ou contes du temps passé Conte ( pronounced [kɔ̃t] ) is a literary genre of tales, often short, characterized by fantasy or wit. [ 1 ] They were popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries until the genre became merged with the short story in the nineteenth century.
Maurice Connor, a blind man, was the finest piper in Munster, and knew a tune that when he played, it forced everyone to dance. One day at a wedding by the sea, he drank a great deal of whiskey, and foolishly began to play that tune.
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Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, 'The Hundred Facetious Tales'), usually translated Droll Stories, is a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by François Rabelais. The stories are written in pastiche Renaissance French; although the title ...
The cat turned into a woman (La chatte métamorphosée en femme, II.18) The coach and the fly (Le coche et la mouche, VII.9) The Cobbler and the Financier (Le savetier et le financier, VIII.2) The cock and the fox (Le coq et le renard, II.15) The cock and the pearl (Le coq et la perle, I.20) Death and the woodman (La Mort et le bûcheron, I.16)
His repertoire comprises more than thirty roles including Tosca, La Gioconda, Hérodiade, Henry VIII, Samson and Dalilah, Thaïs, Jérusalem, and the great verdian roles: Macbeth, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Othello, Simon Boccanegra, Aida, Nabucco, Falstaff as well as Les Contes d'Hoffmann and la Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein.