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The Chest and the Ghost By Stendhal

The Chest and the Ghost

By Stendhal

  • Release Date: 2012-02-18
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
  • $1.99

Description

The leathery and excessively slender chief of police don Blas Bustos y Mosquera has a handsome young nobleman, don Fernando, imprisoned for the crime of appearing before him with a fresh complexion and a cool demeanor. Don Fernando's fiancée comes to plead his case, but her beauty, which the sinister chief of police wants for himself, prompts don Blas to secure--or to attempt to secure--don Fernando's permanent removal from his native Granada.

Genre: short story
Length: 8,300 words
Date of English translation: 2012