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  • The Diamond Necklace

    Series series World Classics
    "The Diamond Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant portrays the complexities and consequences of keeping up appearances in the 19th century. Mathilde is a young and beautiful woman, struggling with the ordinary circumstances of her life and marriage. When she is invited to a fancy ball with her husband, she borrows a diamond necklace from a friend. To her horror, she finds the necklace to be gone by the ... Read more

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  • Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 9 (Summer Tales)

    The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, The Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant, The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather and others

    In this collection of classic short stories readers will encounter some of the finest writing in world literature:Contents:Byezhin Prairie by Ivan TurgenevThe Enchanted Bluff by Willa CatherThe Garden Party by Katherine MansfieldA White Heron by Sarah Orne JewettThe Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. LawrenceGooseberries by Anton ChekhovHow Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo TolstoyThe Sheriff's ... Read more

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  • 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

    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

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  • Original Short Stories of Maupassant

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 12

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 13

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 01

    “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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 10

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 06

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 03

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 09

    He was known for thirty miles round was father Toine— fat Toine, Toine-my-extra, Antoine Macheble, nicknamed Burnt-Brandy— the innkeeper of Tournevent. ... Read more

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 11

    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

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