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Authors: Marcel Proust

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4
An exclusive dinner party given by Louis XIV at Meudon; the term was coined by Saint-Simon.
–Trans.

5
Dinner parties given by Louis XIV at the Château de Marly.–Trans.

6
A play on
nombril
, “navel,” which sounds like “non-Briey.” –Trans.

TRANSLATOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENT

My thanks to Odile Chilton, Thomas Meyer, and Robert Kelly for their help with this
translation; and to Mark Cohen above all, who gave me the idea to translate these
pastiches in the first place.

OTHER TITLES IN
THE ART OF THE NOVELLA SERIES

BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER
HERMAN MELVILLE

THE LESSON OF THE MASTER
HENRY JAMES

MY LIFE
ANTON CHEKHOV

THE DEVIL
LEO TOLSTOY

THE TOUCHSTONE
EDITH WHARTON

THE HOUND OF THE
BASKERVILLES
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE DEAD
JAMES JOYCE

FIRST LOVE
IVAN TURGENEV

A SIMPLE HEART
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
RUDYARD KIPLING

MICHAEL KOHLHAAS
HEINRICH VON KLEIST

THE BEACH OF FALESÁ
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

THE HORLA
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

THE ETERNAL HUSBAND
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED
HADLEYBURG
MARK TWAIN

THE LIFTED VEIL
GEORGE ELIOT

THE GIRL WITH THE
GOLDEN EYES
HONORÉ DE BALZAC

A SLEEP AND A FORGETTING
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

BENITO CERENO
HERMAN MELVILLE

MATHILDA
MARY SHELLEY

STEMPENYU: A JEWISH ROMANCE
SHOLEM ALEICHEM

FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES
JOSEPH CONRAD

HOW THE TWO IVANS
QUARRELLED
NIKOLAI GOGOL

MAY DAY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

RASSELAS, PRINCE ABYSSINIA
SAMUEL JOHNSON

THE DIALOGUE OF THE DOGS
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

THE LEMOINE AFFAIR
MARCEL PROUST

THE COXON FUND
HENRY JAMES

THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
LEO TOLSTOY

TALES OF BELKIN
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

THE AWAKENING
KATE CHOPIN

ADOLPHE
BENJAMIN CONSTANT

THE COUNTRY OF
THE POINTED FIRS
SARAH ORNE JEWETT

PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

THE NICE OLD MAN
AND THE PRETTY GIRL
ITALO SVEVO

LADY SUSAN
JANE AUSTEN

JACOB’S ROOM
VIRGINIA WOOLF

THE DUEL
GIACOMO CASANOVA

THE DUEL
ANTON CHEKHOV

THE DUEL
JOSEPH CONRAD

THE DUEL
HEINRICH VON KLEIST

THE DUEL
ALEXANDER KUPRIN

THE ALIENIST
MACHADO DE ASSIS

ALEXANDER’S BRIDGE
WILLA CATHER

FANFARLO
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

THE DISTRACTED PREACHER
THOMAS HARDY

THE ENCHANTED WANDERER
NIKOLAI LESKOV

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