The famous French writer A. Maurois (1885–1967) is known not only for his biographical novels, but also for his short stories: satirical, psychological, fantastic. For the first time, the Soviet reader received such a complete collection of A. Maurois’s stories, where modern bourgeois society is critically portrayed and moral, social, and aesthetic problems are raised.
Contents:
- Biography
- Ariadne, sister
- The Story of One Career
- Because of Balzac
- Tides
- Love in Exile
- Mirrina
- The Curse of the Golden Calf
- Testament
- The Cathedral
- Ants
- Fair at Neuilly
- Good evening, my dear
- Violets on Wednesdays