Guy Maupassant: 1044 books

After searching in vain for work in the center of France , Jacques Randel , carpenter , enters the Channel. He gets arrested once by the police for vagrancy .

A policeman , surprises , wood Champioux a mature wealthy couple indulging his instincts . Ms. Beaurain and her husband should explain himself before the mayor . Ms. Beaurain tells how she and her husband met .  

Visiting an insane asylum , the narrator receives from the director of a madman obsessed with a newspaper hair found in a seventeenth century Italian furniture . He reads it and discovers the story of this man...  

A young woman suffering from inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia) and knowing the point of death recalls his last years , sitting on a bench in Cannes. She got married to please her parents, she was a gay Parisian and , overnight , she finds herself alone in a castle in Normandy. She does not like her husband, but respect him...  

Master Lebrument , notary, presents a case in which he was charged . One day he was called to the bedside of a dying woman who promises a large sum if he finds his son. After the death of her husband , she became the mistress of the man she had loved in his youth and his parents prevented from marrying...

In the car, which just moved Henry Bonclair , climbs a cripple both legs amputated . His face does not seem strange to him ...  

The old aunt Colette wrote a long letter to his niece . She gives her advice to that woman that has just been abandoned by her husband . His main point lies in the fact that his niece kisses too . Women must use charm, caress and use diplomacy to rule. Their power comes from the kiss to be a charming preface and it should not be dull .  

The narrator goes to the opening of hunting with Baron René du Treilles his farm in Marinville . After a good dinner campaign , Baron tells him the story of his tenant , master Lebrument ...  

The narrator tells the miserable life of a blind peasant's son . Both his parents had lived , he lived almost correctly, but when they die , collected by his sister , he became the scapegoat of the family. His brother , who has taken his share of the inheritance , criticized his uselessness .  

Menton. A large German consumptive dying slowly. The narrator binds to know him , and the patient immediately shows him a book of his master, Schopenhauer, annotated by the author . The narrator considers Schopenhauer as "the greatest Reaver dreams." Moreover, a French politician says the...

In a country house, near Pont l'Abbé, saw an old naval doctor. The Kérandec father, his gardener, just ask him to be godfather to his son. And on January 2 , are the way to the church ...  

Jeanne seeing her husband without a mustache , understands that " this small bristles on the lip is helpful to relations between spouses" and compare the different kinds of existing mustaches. Of course, she prefers the French mustache . It reminds him also a cruel memory . During the Franco...

In this New Year's night , Jacques Randal unexpectedly receives his mistress Irene ...  

Guest Muret with his friends Artus , the narrator is housed in Aunt Rose 's room. Insomniac , he gets up at night to write letters and discovered in the secret drawer of a secretary ...