Guy De Maupassant: 1041 books

One evening , in front of Corsica , speaking of happiness, an old man tells a singular memory. During a trip to this island, he spent the night at an old couple. The woman had once been rich . It reveals to the passing stranger happiness alongside former sergeant of hussars who abducted from her parents . The man was : what can it add to its simple contentment happiness?  

François Tessier is an employee of the ministry. He takes the bus every morning at Batignolles to get to central Paris. There he met an employee of store that makes the same trip . Small smiles, handshakes , a few words : this half- hour in the bus is currently the " most charming "...

Two old men are walking in a spring garden. The pollen flies . One of them drew a parallel between germination and the many bastards would have had the other . He believes he has had intercourse with two or three hundred women , and as such , it is right to think that it can have descendants that he does not know. This revives her pain on an old case ...  

There were seven of us on a drag, four women and three men; one of the latter sat on the box seat beside the coachman. We were ascending, at a snail's pace, the winding road up the steep cliff along the coast.

The warm autumn sun was beating down on the farmyard. Under the grass, which had been cropped close by the cows, the earth soaked by recent rains, was soft and sank in under the feet with a soggy noise, and the apple trees, loaded with apples, were dropping their pale green fruit in the dark green grass.

The old ship's surgeon, holding out his glass, watched it as it slowly filled with the golden liquid. Then, holding it in front of his eyes, he let the light from the lamp stream through it, smelled it, tasted a few drops and smacked his lips with relish. Then he said

Mr. Caravan , modest office worker, leads a life for thirty years set as clockwork , every night in the tram that brings him back to Courbevoie, he discusses with Mr Chenet , a so-called doctor, Domino party to coffee, then he goes home he found Ms. Caravan , her two children and her mother's ninety...

Hortense lived thirty years a small house in Argenteuil , in town. Queen Hortense 's nicknamed perhaps because of its brittleness . It is an old girl who seems to stick to anything or anyone. For example , it changes right as soon as it reaches twenty-one years . She has two sisters, but these do not come to see her twice a year ...  

Dieser Band enthält die folgenden Novellen des Meisters der Schauerliteratur: Miß Harriet Denis Kellner, ein Bier! Auf der Reise Ein Idyll Die Erbschaft Der Esel Der Strick Die Taufe Reue Onkel Julius Mutter Sauvage

The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-Nco to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses.

Dieser Band enthält die folgenden Novellen des Meisters der Schauerliteratur: Die beiden Freunde Liebesworte Der Weihnachtsabend Der Ersatzmann Die Reliquie Das Holzscheit Pariser Abenteuer Der Dieb Das Bett Fräulein Fifi Erwacht Weihnachtsfeier Eine List Der Spazierritt Eingerostet Toll? Frau Baptiste Marroca