Original Short Stories of Maupassant

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776587407
• Edition: 0

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 narrative structure.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• VOLUME I
• Guy de Maupassant—A Study by Pol. Neveux
• Boule de Suif
• Two Friends
• The Lancer's Wife
• The Prisoners
• Two Little Soldiers
• Father Milon
• A Coup D'Etat
• Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
• The Horrible
• Madame Parisse
• Mademoiselle Fifi
• A Duel
• VOLUME II
• The Colonel's Ideas
• Mother Sauvage
• Epiphany
• The Mustache
• Madame Baptiste
• The Question of Latin
• A Meeting
• The Blind Man
• Indiscretion
• A Family Affair
• Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse
• VOLUME III
• Miss Harriet
• Little Louise Roque
• The Donkey
• Moiron
• The Dispenser of Holy Water
• A Parricide
• Bertha
• The Patron
• The Door
• A Sale
• The Impolite Sex
• A Wedding Gift
• The Relic
• VOLUME IV
• The Moribund
• The Gamekeeper
• The Story of a Farm Girl
• The Wreck
• Theodule Sabot's Confession
• The Wrong House
• The Diamond Necklace
• The Marquis de Fumerol
• The Trip of Le Horla
• Farewell!
• The Wolf
• The Inn
• VOLUME V
• Monsieur Parent
• Queen Hortense
• Timbuctoo
• Tombstones
• Mademoiselle Pearl
• The Thief
• Clair de Lune
• Waiter, a "Bock"
• After
• Forgiveness
• In the Spring
• A Queer Night in Paris
• VOLUME VI
• That Costly Ride
• Useless Beauty
• The Father
• My Uncle Sosthenes
• The Baroness
• Mother and Son
• The Hand
• A Tress of Hair
• On the River
• The Cripple
• A Stroll
• Alexandre
• The Log
• Julie Romain
• The Rondoli Sisters
• VOLUME VII
• The False Gems
• Fascination
• Yvette Samoris
• A Vendetta
• My Twenty-Five Days
• "The Terror"
• Legend of Mont St. Michel
• A New Year's Gift
• Friend Patience
• Abandoned
• The Maison Tellier
• Denis
• My Wife
• The Unknown
• The Apparition
• VOLUME VIII
• Clochette
• The Kiss
• The Legion of Honor
• The Test
• Found on a Drowned Man
• The Orphan
• The Beggar
• The Rabbit
• His Avenger
• My Uncle Jules
• The Model
• A Vagabond
• The Fishing Hole
• The Spasm
• In the Wood
• Martine
• All Over
• The Parrot
• The Piece of String
• VOLUME IX
• Toine
• Madame Husson's "Rosier"
• The Adopted Son
• Coward
• Old Mongilet
• Moonlight
• The First Snowfall
• Sundays of a Bourgeois
• A Recollection
• Our Letters
• The Love of Long Ago
• Friend Joseph
• The Effeminates
• Old Amable
• VOLUME X
• The Christening
• The Farmer's Wife
• The Devil
• The Snipe
• The Will
• Walter Schnaffs' Adventure
• At Sea
• Minuet
• The Son
• That Pig of a Morin
• Saint Anthony
• Lasting Love
• Pierrot
• A Normandy Joke
• Father Matthew
• VOLUME XI
• The Umbrella
• Belhomme's Beast
• Discovery
• The Accursed Bread
• The Dowry
• The Diary of a Madman
• The Mask
• The Penguins' Rock
• A Family
• Suicides
• An Artifice
• Dreams
• Simon's Papa
• VOLUME XII
• The Child
• A Country Excursion
• Rose
• Rosalie Prudent
• Regret
• A Sister's Confession
• Coco
• Dead Woman's Secret
• A Humble Drama
• Mademoiselle Cocotte
• The Corsican Bandit
• The Grave
• VOLUME XIII
• Old Judas
• The Little Cask
• Boitelle
• A Widow
• The Englishman of Etretat
• Magnetism
• A Father's Confession
• A Mother of Monsters
• An Uncomfortable Bed
• A Portrait
• The Drunkard
• The Wardrobe
• The Mountain Pool
• A Cremation
• Misti
• Madame Hermet
• The Magic Couch
• Endnotes