Guy De Maupassant
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant; (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Guy De Maupassant wrote some of the most twisted and freaky short stories of his day. This is Volume 6 of 13, containing 15 of his best stories. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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65) The Horla
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The Horla ("Le Horla") is a horror story written in the style of a journal by French writer Guy de Maupassant. The story which also features an extraterrestrial being who influences minds and who is destined to conquer humanity. In the form of a journal, the narrator, an upper-class, unmarried, bourgeois man, conveys his troubled thoughts and feelings of anguish. This anguish occurs for four days after he sees a "superb three-mast" boat and impulsively...
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A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouements. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. The story "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat", 1880)...
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant; (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Guy De Maupassant wrote some of the most twisted and freaky short stories of his day. This is Volume 11 of 13, containing 13 of his best stories. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Guy de Maupassant is a famed French man of letters, who was able to feel himself a writer only for a decade. We offer you collected works by the great writer, into which his short stories and the novel "a Life" are included. The book is illustrated with canvases of Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Leloir, Arkhip Kuinji etc.
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This massive work in two volumes, includes all 180 short stories written by the nineteenth-century French master of the genre, Guy de Maupassant.
Guy de Maupassant is one of the modern masters of the art of the short story and has influenced practitioners of that genre from his time to the present.
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant; (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Guy De Maupassant wrote some of the most twisted and freaky short stories of his day. This is Volume 12 of 13, containing 12 of his best stories. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Ce livre contient les trois derniers romans du célèbre écrivain français Guy de Maupassant, parus de 1887 à 1890.
Dans Mont-Oriol, Maupassant reprend des thématiques qui lui sont chères à travers une intrigue o se croisent passions amoureuses et enjeux financiers. Venue de Paris en Auvergne avec son mari William, sur les terres du village d'Enval, suivre un traitement thermal contre une prétendue stérilité, Christiane Andermatt découvre...
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Extrait : "Je n'étais point revenu à Virelogne depuis quinze ans. J'y retournai chasser, à l'automne, chez mon ami Serval, qui avait enfin fait reconstruire son château, détruit par les Prussiens. J'aimais ce pays infiniment. Il est des coins du monde délicieux qui ont pour les yeux un charme sensuel."
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80) Le Vengeur
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Extrait: "Quand M. Antoine Leuillet épousa Mme veuve Mathilde Souris, il était amoureux d'elle depuis bientt dix ans. M. Souris avait été son ami, son vieux camarade de collège. Leuillet l'aimait beaucoup, mais le trouvait un peu godiche. Il disait souvent: Ce pauvre Souris n'a pas inventé la poudre."
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