New York: Macmillan Company, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - Two ironical science fiction novellas by this noted French author best known for his biographies. This edition includes an autobiographical introduction "In the Twilight of My Life" in which he talks about how he came to write these stories and he notes that 'The Weigher of Souls' (first published in English in 1931) was one of his few works of fiction which found success. Epilogue by Jacques Choron; translated from the French by Hamish Miles, and illustrated with seven black and white plates by Leonard Everett Fisher. Includes a bibliography listing Maurois' works with both their first French and first English publication. 187 pp.