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Pleasurable reading - not the author's renown or the his-
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FRENCH STORIES AND TALES
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Stanley Geist.
Sixteen stories which include work by Balzac,
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Gide, Huysmans, Stendhal (this story has never appeared in
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English before), Zola, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Maupassant.
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SPANISH STORIES AND TALES
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Twenty-three stories which include work by
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Valle-Inclan, Cervantes, Unamuno, Calvo, Mallea, Valdes, and
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Subercaseux. "All fine stories."
-Saturday Review
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GERMAN STORIES AND TALES
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Robert Pick.
Eighteen stories which include work by Broch,
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Hesse,
Kafka,
Mann, and Schnitzler. "Literary excellence of
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a high order ... every one of these stories has a life of its own."
-Saturday Review
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Ty pography, binding, and jacket designs by Herbert Bayer
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Each 13·95 at all bookstores
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