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  • Abandoned

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    Laying the foundations for films such as 'Mother and Child,' starring Naomi Watts and Samuel L Jackson, 'Abandoned' packs a lot into a short space.As a younger woman, Madame de Cadour gave birth to an illegitimate son. She and her then-lover, Henri put the child up for adoption, but she has wondered about him ever since.40 years later, she decides to try and find him with Henri's help, and her ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bel-ami

    by Guy Maupassant ...
    Translated by Douglas Parmee ...
    Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Pierre and Jean

    Bilingual Edition (English – French)

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Clara Bell ...
    Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot. ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Parrot

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    Series series World Classics
    A drunkard and a brute, Patin's marriage to Désireé is an unhappy one. He leaves to go fishing one night during a terrible storm, and never returns. Désireé is convinced he has somehow managed to cheat death and lives in constant fear of his return. Some years later she buys a parrot, and her nightmare begins anew. Amusing and humorous, "The Parrot" is a short comedy in which Maupassant holds his ... Read more

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  • Short Stories

    by 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

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secrets and Scandals - an Historical Romance Collection

    boxed set two of The Lady's Guide to Love series

    by Emmanuelle de Maupassant ...
    Series series The Lady's Guide to Love
    Four gripping historical romance novels, filled with excitement, family secrets, steamy bedroom scenes and breathtaking love stories.Fall under the spell of a dark Highlander, thrill to forbidden kisses on windswept Dartmoor, and surrender to a mysterious count in the wild Carpathians.Experience intrigue and passion as you follow the adventures of Flora, Rosamund, Sofia and Genevieve.Be prepared ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Pierre and Jean

    by Guy Maupassant ...
    The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy. But when a lawyer arrives at the house of their parents, to declare that an old family friend has bequeathed his entire fortune to Jean, this envy rapidly becomes an all-consuming force. Despising himself for the hate that he feels, Pierre roams the seaport of Le Havre alone, desperate to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Mother Of Monsters

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    'A Mother of Monsters' is a dark and disturbing story.The narrator is visiting his friend, and they walk along the seafront. As their conversation continues, the friend tells him of the eponymous mother, and they decide to visit her.What they are met with is both horrific and tragic and can be read as a commentary on the plight of the lower classes. Maupassant's concise and simple style only ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Laird Who Loved Me

    a boxed set of Scottish Highland romances

    by Emmanuelle de Maupassant ...
    Series series The Lady's Guide to Love
    Devour this collection of three exciting historical romances, set over Christmas and New Year.Protective Highlander heroesWild and windswept Scottish landscapesForbidding castles filled with secretsA trilogy of daring adventure, thrilling romance, and swoon-worthy passion, this set contains:The Lady’s Guide to a Highlander’s Heart: When Flora Dalreagh’s father is cruelly murdered, she flees the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alien Hearts

    Translated by Richard Howard, Richard Howard ...
    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Diamond Necklace (The Classic Unabridged English Edition) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A 19th-century French tale of social ambition, dramatic irony, and unforgiving realism

    by Guy de Maupassant, Linden Castermere ...
    "The Diamond Necklace" is one of Guy de Maupassant's most perfectly constructed tales of irony, social illusion, and moral consequence. In a prose style at once lucid, economical, and devastatingly precise, the story follows Mathilde Loisel, a young woman whose longing for aristocratic elegance leads to a single disastrous act of vanity and concealment. Set within the material ambitions of late ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lady's Guide to Egyptian Curses

    a gothic romance, in 19th century Egypt

    by Emmanuelle de Maupassant ...
    Series Book 8 - The Lady's Guide to Love
    Exploring a mysterious temple in the Egyptian desert, hidden for centuries, Onora awakens a dark force.Assailed by disturbing dreams, she questions her sanity, until she learns of the temple's terrifying cult, and the curse of the twelve scarabs.Is it possible to escape her fate, and who can she trust?Brooding Lord Seton, to whom she is betrothed, or enigmatic archaeologist Jack Balfour?What to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus