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• Short stories, French -- Translations into English
• French fiction -- To 1500 -- Translations into English

• The Great Modern French Stories: A Chronological Anthology (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1917), ed. by Willard Huntington Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Eight Strokes of the Clock, by Maurice Leblanc (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Friend of Youth: Translated From the French of M. Berquin (2 volumes; Newburyport: Printed by J. Mycall for the proprietor of the Boston Book-Store, ca. 1800), by M. Berquin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The White Cat, and Other Old French Fairy Tales (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Madame d'Aulnoy, ed. by Rachel Field, illust. by E. MacKinstry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy (new edition, with additional illustrations; London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898), by Madame d'Aulnoy, trans. by Anne Macdonell and Miss Lee, contrib. by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, illust. by DeWitt Clinton Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy (from an 1892 compilation, with additional d'Aulnoy tales from Lang collections), by Madame d'Aulnoy, ed. by Heidi Anne Heiner, trans. by Anne Macdonell and Miss Lee, contrib. by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (HTML with commentary at surlalunefairytales.com)
• Old French Fairy Tales (Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, c1920), by Sophie Ségur, illust. by Virginia Frances Sterrett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Little Old Man of Batignolles, and Other Stories (London: Vizetelly and Co., 1886), by Emile Gaboriau
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Truth About the Case: The Experiences of M.F. Goron, Ex-Chief of The Paris Detective Police (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1907), by Marie-François Goron, ed. by Albert Keyzer, illust. by Arthur Garfield Dove (page images at HathiTrust)

• Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel, by François Rabelais, trans. by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, illust. by Gustave Doré (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Man-Wolf and Other Tales, by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (Gutenberg text)

• The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, by Queen Marguerite, trans. by Walter K. Kelly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (from a 3-volume edition), by Guy de Maupassant, contrib. by Paul Bourget and Robert Arnot (HTML at Virginia)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, contrib. by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dēmētrios Vikelas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Camille Lemonnier, and Mór Jókai (Gutenberg text)

• One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories (Paris: Charles Carrington, 1899), ed. by Antoine de La Sale, trans. by Robert B. Douglas, illust. by Léon Lebèque (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

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• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Joan E. DeJean (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Gilbert D. Chaitin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Kelly (PDF at PSU)
• Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Emily S. Apter
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Emily S. Apter
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of Books in English, French and German Belonging to the Class of Prose Fiction (Cincinnati: Board of Managers of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 1876), by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century) (2 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1917-1919), by George Saintsbury
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Unhappy Few: A Psychological Study of the Novels of Stendhal (Indiana University Humanities Series #69; Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1972), by Gilbert D. Chaitin (page images at HathiTrust)

• This Africa: Novels by West Africans in English and French (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1965), by Judith Gleason (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Annabel L. Kim (PDF at Ohio State)
• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Contes Fantastiques (in French; Paris: L. Hachette et cie, 1860), by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes Fantastiques: Le Diable Amoureux, par Cazotte; Le Démon Marié, par Machiavel; Merveilleuse Histoire de Pierre Schlémihl, par Adelbert de Chamisso (in French; Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, ca. 1867), contrib. by Jacques Cazotte, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Adelbert von Chamisso (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Short Stories: French, ed. by Francis J. Reynolds (Gutenberg text)

• Half-Hours with the Best French Authors: Short Passages From Some of the Most Celebrated Prose Writers, Translated Into English (New York: D. Appleton, 1867), illust. by Emile Bayard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Intruder; The Blind; The Seven Princesses; The Death of Tintagiles (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Richard Hovey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Intruder; The Blind; The Seven Princesses; The Death of Tintagiles (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Richard Hovey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joyzelle; Monna Vanna (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Alfred Sutro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Beatrice; and Ardiane and Barbe Bleue: Two Plays (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Bernard Miall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oysters, Nightingales and Cooking Pots: Selected Poetry and Prose in Translation (Heslington, UK: White Rose University Press, c2018), by Tristan Corbière, ed. by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe, trans. by Christopher Pilling (multiple formats with commentary at White Rose University press)
• The Book of French Songs, Translated by John Oxenford, Esq.; To Which is Added Miss Costello's Early French Poetry (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, ca. 1872), trans. by John Oxenford and Louisa Stuart Costello (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Song of Roland, trans. by Jessie Crosland (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by John O'Hagan
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Song of Roland, Translated Into English Verse (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1913), trans. by Arthur S. Way
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Of the Tumbler of Our Lady and Other Miracles, Now Translated from the Middle French (London, Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Alice Kemp-Welch, contrib. by Gautier de Coinci (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old French Romances, Done Into English, trans. by William Morris, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• Old-World Love Stories, From the Lays of Marie de France and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason, contrib. by Marie de France, illust. by Reginald L. Knowles (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Aucassin and Nicolette and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

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