Contes cruels (Cruel Tales) is a two-volume set of about 150 tales and short stories by the 19th-century French writer Octave Mirbeau, collected and edited...

exploits the cruel aspects of the 'irony of fate.' The collection from which the short-story genre of the conte cruel takes its name is Contes cruels (1883,...

Eve (1886), and the short-story collection Contes cruels (1883, tr. Sardonic Tales, 1927). Contes cruels is regarded as an important collection of horror...

examples of contes include Contes et nouvelles en vers by Jean de La Fontaine, Histoires ou contes du temps passé by Charles Perrault, and Contes cruels [fr]...

the heart of gold stereotype was Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Contes cruels - there the prostitute was well regarded while she plied her trade in...

torture par l'espérance ("Torture by Hope") from the collection Nouveaux contes cruels by the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and from La Légende...

Stories in 1939 as by 'Tarleton Fiske' were fantasy/horror hybrids of the contes cruels type. In October 1941, the tale "A Good Knight's Work" in Unknown Worlds...

2004, Terre d'ombre, for large orchestra and electronic sounds 2007, Contes cruels, for 2 electric guitars and orchestra 2013, Reflections / Reflets I...

directed against bourgeois materialism, as in Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's Contes cruels [Cruel Tales] (1883) and Tribulat Bonhomet (1887). The decadent Symbolists...

(Histoire d'une Minute) (1905). La Mort de Balzac (1889). Contes cruels, 2 volumes (1890 and 1900). Contes drôles (1895). Mémoire pour un avocat (2007). Combats...