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1891
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Double Heart, Marcel Schwob’s first collection of short stories, here presented in English for the first time, in an expert translation by Brian Stableford, was originally published in 1891, all of the stories in it having previously appeared in the daily newspaper L’Écho de Paris while the author was part of a “stable” of writers attached to the newspaper, commissioned to supply stories at weekly or fortnightly intervals.
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Author
Marcel Schwob
Author · 10 books
Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) was one of the key symbolist writers, standing in French literature alongside such names as Stephane Mallarme, Octave Mirbeau, Andre Gide, Leon Bloy, Jules Renard, Remy de Gourmont, and Alfred Jarry. His best-known works are Double Heart (1891), The King In The Gold Mask (1892), and Imaginary Lives (1896).
