Guy De Maupassant: 1041 books

This book contains numerous interesting stories related with human behaviour, human socio-psycho-logical character, metabolic change in psyche as well as the impact of socio-political changes of time and situations. It is the hard fact that many stories portrayed have not linked with pragmatism and...

The household lived frugally on the meager income derived from the husband's insignificant appointments. Two children had been born of the marriage, and the earlier condition of the strictest economy had become one of quiet, concealed, shamefaced misery, the poverty of a noble family— which in spite of misfortune never forgets its rank.

The lawyer had pleaded insanity. How to explain this strange crime? We had found the bodies of a man and woman embrace. They were rich , worldly , and the police had found no suspect until a nihilist or communist carpenter named George Louis , came to confess to the double crime and himself up. Early...

1871. France is at war against Prussia. Lieutenant Lare , who already has several achievements to his credit since the beginning of the conflict, receives a mission to go to the aid of a threatened French troops with annihilation . It starts at night with three hundred men . When he arrives near...

Passing a ruined castle , the narrator is telling the story of the Wild family who lived there. The father, a poacher , had been killed by the police . Soon after, the son went to war and did not give more news. One day the town hall square in the mother Wild four Prussian soldiers of the occupation...

One evening about eight months ago I met with some college comrades at the lodgings of our friend Louis R. We drank punch and smoked, talked of literature and art, and made jokes like any other company of young men. Suddenly the door flew open, and one who had been my friend since boyhood burst in...

Eleven classic short stories by the great French master of the form. Included are: "One Evening," "The Devil," "A Sister's Confession," "The Beggar," "The Drunkard," "The Adopted Son," "An Artifice," "My Uncle Sosthenes," "Father Milon," "The Piece of String," and "Solitude."

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Mail Henri Fontal to Rev. Fr. Louis Ennemare in which he asks the abbot to intervene with his cousin Gilberte which he was engaged Henri Fontal . This young girl very devout , broke the engagement after a joke he did. Named for an amputation in Cologne, Gilberte asked a souvenir of Cologne. Two days...

Next walk a road bordering the Mediterranean, the narrator discovers a beautiful villa owned by Julie Romain, a former actress. He decides to visit him ...

Theodule Sabot is a carpenter and freethinker . It "eats" the priest every day. He is careful to work on Sunday and kill the pig Easter Monday . His opponent is the pastor of Martinville, which, with the approach of municipal elections where Theodule must report , informed the village the church choir should be redone in wood, and all the benches of the church.  

This year, it leaves behind the old and the young Gaspard Hari Ulrich Kunsi with Sam guide, a large dog mountain. They are responsible for monitoring the inn during the winter. But the heart split because of its separation from the young Louise Hauser Ulrich is hardly pleased with having to spend...

In the middle of a meeting , Mr. Bermutier , judge tells an inexplicable case. He exercised in Ajaccio and had to care for vendetta. One day an Englishman comes to town and becomes the subject of rumors : it would be a character on the run for a political case . Every person has an opinion about...

Mr. Maloureau , former imperial province prosecutor says the case of Moiron teacher.