Title: Le joueur généreux

Title: Le joueur généreux Title Record # 1766103
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Date: 1868-00-00
Type: POEM
Language: French

Note: This story first appeared in Baudelaire's collection Le spleen de Paris. Petits poëmes en prose (piece XXIX), first published in 1868.

Synopsis: A man plays cards with the Devil, bets his soul, and loses it. The Devil decides to make up for this by granting the man's every wish until he dies.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1918^ⓘTranslation from <i>The English Review</i>, November 1918	English	The Generous Gambler [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
1945	English	The Generous Gambler [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Anthologie du conte fantastique français	1947-06-00	ed. Pierre Castex	Librairie José Corti		326	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	S.o'B.
Anthologie du conte fantastique français	1947-06-00	ed. Pierre Castex	Librairie José Corti		326	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Anthologie du conte fantastique français	1963-09-00	ed. Pierre Castex	Librairie José Corti		348	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
Anthologie du conte fantastique français	1977-09-00	ed. Pierre Castex	Librairie José Corti		348	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
Petits poëmes en prose (Le spleen de Paris)	2003-07-18	Charles Baudelaire	Gallimard (Poésie #95)	2-07-031999-7	253	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	Carjat
Anthologie du conte fantastique français	2004-01-02	ed. Pierre Castex	Librairie José Corti (Les Massicotés)		375	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

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Reviews

Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)