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Les Mille et un jours, like Les Mille et un nuits, is a frame story containing a number of tales and stories within stories.The framework tale, "L'histoire de la princesse de Cachemire" (The Story of the Princess of Kashmir), tells of the princess Farrukhnaz, who has a dream in which she sees a stag abandon its doe in a trap.
Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
"Histoire du second Calender, fils de Roi" ("The Story of the Second Calendar, son of King") "Histoire de l'Envieux et de l'Envie" ("History of the envious Man, and of him that he envied") "Histoire du troisième Calender, fils de Roi" ("The Story of the Third Calendar, son of King") "Histoire de Zobéide" ("The Story of Zobeide")
" Hâtez-vous de monter mon opéra. Il ne me reste plus longtemps à vivre et mon seul désir est d'assister à la première. " ("Hurry up and stage my opera. I have not much time left, and my only wish is to attend the opening night.") [3] The stories in the opera include: " Der Sandmann" ("The Sandman"), 1816. [4]
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 ...
Some years after Deulin published Contes d'un buveur de bière, American playwright and blackface minstrel Frank Dumont wrote a loose variation on the story "Cambrinus, Roi de la Bière". In this musical burlesque , titled Gambrinus, King of Lager Beer , Gambrinus is a poor woodcutter to whom "Belzebub" [ sic ] gives a recipe for an excellent ...
"A Simple Heart", or Un cœur simple in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l'Évèque, where she picks up work in a widow's house as a servant.
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.