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  • The Wreck

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Albert Marian Cohn-McMaster ...
    Series series World Classics
    Are memories of past love affairs stronger than time?After a mysterious foreign letter arrives at breakfast, Georges Garin shares with his friend a peculiour travelogue. While inspecting a wrecked ship, an English man with his three daughters approaches him. A passionate love affair flares between Garin and the oldest daughter which settles in his heart for the years to come. The remarkable short ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Original Short Stories of Maupassant

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson ...
    Over the course of his career, French writer Guy de Maupassant made a number of important contributions to the then-emergent genre of short stories. Today, critics regard him as one of the most accomplished virtuosos of short fiction. This comprehensive collection of Maupassant's short works showcases the writer's unique talents, which include an unvarnished, straightforward style and a mastery of ... Read more

    $4.69 CAD

  • The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. Illustrated

    The Diamond Necklace, Boule de Suif, The Piece of String, Two Friend and other short stories

    by Guy de Maupassant, Mme. Quesada ...
    Translated by Albert M. C. Mcmaster, A. E. Henderson ...
    Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassantwas a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Signal

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Albert Marian Cohn-McMaster ...
    When the Baronne de Grangerie attempts to imitate the gestures of a woman in the window on the opposite side of the street, she gets much more than she bargained for. Will she make her next move based on her sensual appetites, or will her conscience prevail? With his short story "The Signal" from 1886, Guy de Maupassant conveys the little dramas and daily preoccupations of the rich and bored ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Châli

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Albert Marian Cohn-McMaster ...
    Referencing Victor Hugo, author of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' 'Châli' is an equally tragic love story.Admiral de la Vallée tells of the time he was sent to Central India, as part of an expedition. There, he is introduced to the prince, Rajah Maddan, and a host of customs that take him far outside of his comfort zone.The Admiral is presented with a harem but cannot take it upon himself to use ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 06

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    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. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 03

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    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. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 05

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    George's father was sitting in an iron chair, watching his little son with concentrated affection and attention, as little George piled up the sand into heaps during one of their walks. He would take up the sand with both hands, make a mound of it, and put a chestnut leaf on top. His father saw no one but him in that public park full of people. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 01

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    “I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. ” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 13

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    This entire stretch of country was amazing; it was characterized by a grandeur that was almost religious, and yet it had an air of sinister desolation. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 12

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    Lemonnier had remained a widower with one child. He had loved his wife devotedly, with a tender and exalted love, without a slip, during their entire married life. He was a good, honest man, perfectly simple, sincere, without suspicion or malice. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 08

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    How strange those old recollections are which haunt us, without our being able to get rid of them. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD