Bed 29 and Other Stories (The Folio Society)

xviii, 221 pp. Translated into English from the original French by Donald Adamson, illustrations from drawings by Helen Smithson. A collection of short stories by the 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.