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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 07

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    Monsieur Lantin had met the young girl at a reception at the house of the second head of his department, and had fallen head over heels in love with her. ... 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 11

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the greatest difficulty in making what the servants call their market-penny, and her husband was hardly allowed any pocket money at all. They were, however, very comfortably off, and had no children; but ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 04

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

    $2.99 CAD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 10

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

    $2.99 CAD

  • 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 02

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    “Upon my word, ” said Colonel Laporte, "although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two pieces of wood, yet if a pretty woman were to tell me to go through the eye of a needle, I believe I should take a jump at it, like a clown through a hoop. I shall die like that; it is in the blood. I am an old beau, one of the old school, and the sight of a woman, a pretty woman, stirs me to the tips of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD