Contes cruels
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Overview:
- Title: Contes cruels
- Author: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
- Year: 2001
- ISBN-10: 2266049097
- Publisher: Presses Pocket
- Pages: 411
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: À s'y méprendre !
- Notes:
- Possible first printing; © Pocket, département d'Univers Poche, 2001.
- Preface and notes by Pascaline Mourier-Casile.
- Cover art credit on bc, presented as "Maquette M. Allandrieu". It is unclear whether the latter is also the author of the illustration.
- NB :
- The piece called "Conte d'amour" is a collection of seven short poems (numbered I to VII), previously published from 1862 to 1873, and gathered for the first time in 1880.
- Three stories are new : "Deux augures", "Duke of Portland" and "Maryelle".
- Many stories received a new title in this collection.