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100	1		_aHello, Ernest, _d1828-1885
245	1	0	_aContes extraordinaires
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-12
505	0		_aLudovic -- Deux étrangers -- Simple histoire -- Les deux ménages -- Julien -- La laveuse de nuit -- Le secret trahi -- Un homme courageux -- Les mémoires d'une chauve-souris -- Caïn -- Ève et Marie -- Que s'était-il donc passé? -- Le regard du juge -- Les deux ennemis -- Il s'amuse -- Le gâteau des rois -- La recherche -- Les terreurs d'Hélène.
508			_aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520			_a"Contes extraordinaires" by Ernest Hello is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. Blending parable, mysticism, and Catholic moral reflection, the tales probe the search for the Name of God, the dignity of the poor, and the treachery of appearances. Early pieces focus on figures like Ludovic, an avaricious patriarch, and William, a renowned doctor consumed by an unnamed hunger, to explore conscience, charity, and spiritual blindness. The opening of the collection presents a preface that champions the conte as a humble, piercing vehicle for truth, framing the book between the Name of God and the name of the poor, and exalting charity’s mysterious power. The first tale, Ludovic, follows a wealthy family’s collapse as the father’s fanatic avarice strips away comfort and love; he hoards gold in a secret cellar, locks it with a code word—then forgets it—and, while trying to sell the household’s last friend, the dog Mirro, is killed as he recognizes the lost word too late. The next story begins with Dr. William, a famous physician wasting away because no food matches a vague, absolute craving; in private notes he recalls meeting a mysterious presence who called him “my child” and seemed to promise a higher science, hinting at the spiritual enigma driving his decline. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cParis: Perrin et Cie, 1921
653			_aShort stories, French
653			_aFrench fiction -- 19th century
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/contesextraordin00hell
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77222
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