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Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories published between 1794 and 1825 by
Xavier de Maistre.
It was translated from French between 1871 and 1899 by
John Andrews, Henry Attwell, H. C. Carey, and I. Lea.

Ray Riga
sponsored the production of this ebook for
Standard Ebooks.
It was transcribed and produced by
Alex Cabal,
and is based on a transcription produced in 2020 by
Tim Lindell, Chuck Grief, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans from
Google Books.

The cover page is adapted from
The Artist’s Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse,
a painting completed in 1851 by
Adolph Menzel.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

The first edition of this ebook was released on
January 21, 2022, 2:32 a.m.
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