The odd number
thirteen tales
- First published:
- 19th century
- Languages: English, French, German, Multiple languages, Spanish, Vietnamese, Yiddish
- Content type: FictionJuvenile
May 8th. What a glorious day! IT was tea-time before the appearance of the lamps. ALTHOUGH it was not yet ten o'clock, the clerks were pouring in through the building of the Ministry of Marine, hastening from all corners of Paris, for New Year's Day, the time for zeal and promotion, was approaching.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the subtitle, “Tales” in the subject metadata, and “Tales” in the edition subtitle.
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- “Tales”· in subtitle
- “Tales”· in subject
- “Tales”· in edition subtitle
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Editions
Open Library reports 59 editions; 1 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
thirteen tales by Guy de Maupassant Open Library record | 1917 | Harper & brothers | English | — | Public |
Subjects
- Fiction
- Social life and customs
- Children's fiction
- Translations into English
- Short Stories
- Description and travel
- Supernatural
- Readers
- Paranormal fiction
- french language
- Translations into German
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
- Translations into Spanish
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- English Horror tales
- English Short stories
- Translations from French
- Traducciones al español
- English Translations
- French Short stories
- Ficción fantástica
- Short stories, french, translations into english
- Cuentos de terror franceses
- Cuentos franceses
- French Horror tales
Identifiers & provenance
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- Open Library work
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Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 59 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL93839W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
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