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Cover of That Costly Ride
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

“That Costly Ride” by Guy de Maupassant is about a man who ends up being taken to the cleaners–financially wise–because of an accident...
Cover of The Moribund
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

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...  
Cover of A Recollection
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

An old lady , Delphine writes to Sophie that now she prefers to stay in his house , wrapped in memories, rather than run in Paris ...  
Cover of The Tellier House
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

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...
Cover of Friend Joseph
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

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...
Cover of A Meeting
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

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...  
Cover of All Over
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

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 ...  
Cover of The Log
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

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...
Cover of The Will
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The narrator, intrigued by the fact that his friend René de Bourneval does not carry the same name as his brothers , gets him a secret about his origins. His mother, Madame de Courcils , was married to a country gentleman , a boor who had married her for her money and he was cheating with...
Cover of Moonlight
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

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...
Cover of Tombstones
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

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...
Cover of The Test
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

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 ...
Cover of The Unknown
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

On the Pont de la Concorde , Baron Roger Annettes meeting of an unknown Girl that makes him " an effect ... but an effect ... amazing.  
Cover of The Question of Latin
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

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...
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