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Title: Qui sait ? Title Record # 1733605
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1890-04-06
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
Note: This story first appeared in L'Écho de Paris, April 6, 1890.
Synopsis: The narrator tells how all his furniture disappeared from his house one day, reappeared in an antique shop, and then returned to their original places. It's entirely inexplicable.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1910Can also be found in Pall Mall Magazine Vol 3 No. 14 1894. This record combines multiple translations: an uncredited one revised by Dora Knowlton Ranous (1910); one by Storm Jameson (1926); and possibly others.
English Who Knows?
1940Translated by an unknown hand
Spanish ¿Quién sabe?
1953Translated by Giorgio Dalla.
Italian Chi sa?
1972Translated by Arnold Kellett
English Who Knows?
1976Translated by Lucie Haring and Rob Geuljans
Dutch Je kunt nooit weten
1979 German Wer weiß
1982Translated by uncredited
German Wer weiß?
1993Translated by David Coward
English Who Can Tell?
2004Translated by Siân Miles
English Who Knows?
2005Translated by Ludovica Cirrincione d'Amelio for her anthology <i>Il racconto fantastico francese</i>, 2005.
Italian Chissà ?
2006Translated by Stanley Appelbaum
English Who Knows?
2015Translated by Sandra Smith
English Who Can Know?

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
La France fantastique de Balzac à Louÿs 1973-00-00 ed. Jean-Baptiste Baronian Marabout (Anthologie du Fantastique)     443
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Contes fantastiques complets 1973-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
    384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Contes fantastiques complets 1976-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
    380+
[4]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Qui sait ?: et autres histoires étranges 1981-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur) 2-264-00345-6   297
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Frank Sérac  
Histoires de délires?Histoires de delires
1981-11-02 ed. Jacques Goimard, Roland Stragliati Presses Pocket ( #2013) 2-266-01083-2   341
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Broutin  
Contes fantastiques complets 1983-01-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
2-501-00040-4   384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Contes fantastiques complets 1996-01-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout?Bibliotheque Marabout
#9001)
2-501-00948-7   384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques 2000-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classique #840) 2-253-00539-8
F20.00?F: French frank
381
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll
Léon Spilliaert?Leon Spilliaert
Checkmark
Petit musée des horreurs: Nouvelles fantastiques, cruelles et macabres 2008-08-00 ed. Nathalie Prince Robert Laffont (Bouquins) 978-2-221-11014-0
€30.00?€: Euro
xxvii+
1104
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Steve Beck Checkmark
Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques?Le Horla: et autres recits fantastiques
2011-08-00 Guy de Maupassant Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classiques #840) 978-2-253-00539-1
€3.00?€: Euro
381
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Francesco Oller y Cestero  
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