The Seven Wives of Bluebeard - 1920
Anatole France
Translator D. B. Stewart
Publisher: Good Press
Summary
"The Seven Wives of Bluebeard: 1920" by Anatole France is a short Victorian family and relationship adventure thriller story. The story follows Bluebeard an estate owner, and dubious hero of the story, whose wives keep running away or dying. When it happens once, no one thinks anything of it. Twice, and it's a coincidence. However, eventually, gossip spreads, and people begin to wonder what strange and horrible things must be happening in the Bluebeard home.