Guy Maupassant: 1044 books

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...

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...

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...

Two poor families, Tuvache and Vallin, live in harmony but miserably in two neighboring cottages. One day, Mr and Mrs d'Hubieres , who can not have children , want to adopt a fee , the youngest son of Tuvache Charlot. The mother violently refuses the inhuman proposition to him. The couple...

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...

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 ...

On the Pont de la Concorde , Baron Roger Annettes meeting of an unknown Girl that makes him " an effect ... but an effect ... amazing.  

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...

A sailor found a letter from a young man who drowned in the Seine. In the letter , the young man wrote to a woman. He describes himself as someone who has never loved. He believed love once a young woman. They had done the night boat. He had recited her verses . She was lying in the bottom of the boat to watch the stars . But an unfortunate word of the woman had broken the spell ...  

The Franco -Prussian War of 1870 ended for France, and Mr. Dubuis . He was National Guard in Paris, but has not seen a single Prussian. Also, it is particularly humiliated by having to suffer the boastful thoughts of a Prussian officer in the train that lead to Switzerland. In the compartment , there...

For ten years , Patin, good sailor, but brutal, flanked by thrashing his wife Desiree . After a storm , we find the remains of his boat , the bodies of his sailors , but no Patin ...  

For forty years , Bell, a cripple , begging in villages. For two days he did not eat anything and it comes befall the corner of a ditch along the master Chiquet court . Seeing spend black hens , he had the urge to kill to eat it right after . He succeeded with his skillful hands, but Chiquet the...

A popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Contents Afloat (1889) Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundre Pierre and Jean Mademoiselle Fifi Strong as Death Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Bel Ami - The story...

Georges Gatin , an old friend of the narrator, tells how he spent part of the night on a wreck with an English family...