Outlaws and Sorrows

This collection assembles the works of fiction that Charles Nodier (1780-1844), one of the great pioneers of the French Romantic Movement, published during the first of the three distinct phases into which his troubled literary career was divided, and were all first published during the years when France was ruled by Napoléon Bonaparte.Superbly translated by Brian Stableford, the pieces contained herein, which include the novellas "The Outlaws" and "The Painter of Salzburg," were mostly wri...