Guy De De Maupassant: 1041 books

The couple farmers is before the pallet where dying old . The priest has said he will not last the night. The man asks if he must ensure his stepfather to go to the fields. His wife advised him to go to work , since the funeral will be held Saturday. Then they changed their minds : there best time to prevent the vicinity of the death of the old ; this will save time tomorrow...  

An old lady , Delphine writes to Sophie that now she prefers to stay in his house , wrapped in memories, rather than run in Paris ...  

The brothel of a small Normandy town held by Mrs. Tellier, is " closed for First Communion " to the dismay of regulars. After a railway trip , residents attended the ceremony and were moved by Constance , niece of Madame Tellier, and the church feeling of reverence , so they will go to...

M. Joseph Mouradour Meroul had known in college. They were good friends. So when he meets him at a ball , they will attend again and Joseph is invited in the castle of Meroul . Joseph 's General Counsel is a Republican, free-thinker . The royalists and Meroul are devout Catholics . Joseph...

Baron Etraille , who surprised his wife in the arms of the Marquis of Cervigné , decides to separate from her "without noise." Six years later, he takes quick to Nice and runs into the Baroness...  

Looking at herself in the large mirror , Count Lormerin whispers : Lormerin still lives ! However, an invitation sent by a lost friend not seen for twenty-five years soon remind him his gray hair ...  

The narrator , standing alongside one of her friends , suddenly sees a log down the chimney and start igniting the room. However, he managed to stop the fire and said that the fall of this log recalls her painful memories , which was the source of his hatred of marriage. Young , he had to a best...

Julie was a shock when it finds that Henriette has white hair : she is only twenty- four years! Suspecting something serious , she asked him the truth. " I have a lover ," confesses Henriette , sobbing , and she tells him the trip to Switzerland with her husband , he, always perfect, always...

Two poor families, Tuvache and Vallin, live in harmony but miserably in two neighboring cottages. One day, Mr and Mrs d'Hubieres , who can not have children , want to adopt a fee , the youngest son of Tuvache Charlot. The mother violently refuses the inhuman proposition to him. The couple...

At the end of dinner, two friends met . One of them tells one of his misadventures at the cemetery. There he meets a young woman who mourns the death of her missing husband. Pity for the widow, he accompanied to the exit of the cemetery. They have a brief affair . And some time later , he met the...

As often, the Bondel household quarrel , this time about the supposed adultery people from down the street Cradle and the blindness of the deceived husbands . On thinking of his wife, Bondel has doubts and decides to test ...

Piquedent father pawn to Robineau institution. Frustrated and tired of his monotonous existence , he dreams to a softer life. One day, this enthusiast beautiful letters requires that students no longer meet him in Latin , and so, it allows the institution to win every year , hands down , all competitions...

A sailor found a letter from a young man who drowned in the Seine. In the letter , the young man wrote to a woman. He describes himself as someone who has never loved. He believed love once a young woman. They had done the night boat. He had recited her verses . She was lying in the bottom of the boat to watch the stars . But an unfortunate word of the woman had broken the spell ...  

The Franco -Prussian War of 1870 ended for France, and Mr. Dubuis . He was National Guard in Paris, but has not seen a single Prussian. Also, it is particularly humiliated by having to suffer the boastful thoughts of a Prussian officer in the train that lead to Switzerland. In the compartment , there...