Contes cruels

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.