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This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

M. Savalle, a small-town notary and amateur operatic singer with pretensions, travels to Paris to visit the opera and takes the opportunity to rub shoulders with famous artists in the cafés of Montmartre. He is unexpectedly invited to a housewarming party by a notable painter...but things do not go at all as he expected. His host vanishes unexpectedly and M. Savalle is left in charge of the occasion. When the guests arrive, they mistake him for the waiter...and from there things only get worse.

Guy de Maupassant's powerful and poignant story of a brief moment of mysterious passion in a young man's life, related in a letter found on his drowned corpse.

Guy de Maupassant's poignant love story of a doomed fascination between a hedonistic French artist and an eccentric English spinster. Miss Harriet is a mysterious and odd middle-aged lady who has taken up residence in an obscure corner of the French countryside, where she communes with nature and reads odd religious tracts. When a happy-go-lucky young French adventurer and artist comes to stay, Miss Harriet falls in love with him.

A peasant attending the market in the neighboring town stoops to pick up a piece of string from the road. Later that day, he is maliciously accused of picking up a lost pocketbook containing five hundred francs and some valuable business papers. Although he is innocent of the charge, and the pocketbook is later handed in to the mayor by the person who actually found it, the taint of the accusation remains. The more the man protests his innocence, the less he is believed.

A gentleman enjoying the morning over the River Seine waves to a steamer, and the nightmare begins. He believes he may be going insane, but then he begins to feel there is an entity that he cannot see invading his mind and his home. The entity is perhaps an invader from another world. Guy de Maupassant's tale of classic horror will enthrall you.

Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance. Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life...

Selections include: "The Duel" and "The Umbrella" by Guy de Maupasssant; "The Schartz-Metterklume Method", "The Open Window", and "The Story Teller" by Saki; "The Scandal Monger" and "Verochka" by Anton Chekhov; and "The Wardrobe" by Thomas Mann.

Este relato esta compuesto por elementos antagónicos. Cargado de colores y vida para las descripciones de los paisajes y personajes secundarios, se torna casi cruel a la hora de referirse a Harriet. Descrito con los ojos de un pintor se nos presenta a un personaje frío, gris, inglés, en contraposición al pintor Chenal quien desde el inicio del relato de su historia de amor es presentado como cándido, lleno de vida, alguien que disfruta de la vida.

Various stories featuring big cats: many Indian hunting stories from the time of the Raj. These adventure stories are suitable for anyone of any age who enjoys the excitement and thrill of the chase.

A gruesome story of obsessive love and terrible madness set in 19th century New England. One dark night, a cemetery caretaker is awakened by the barking of his dog. Investigating, the caretaker comes upon a scene of abject horror: a dimly lit figure is pulling the corpse of a young woman from an open grave. As the grave robber is brought to trial, the stunned townspeople hear firsthand his bizarre, ghastly reasons for the unspeakable act which he committed.

Palla di burro è il titolo di una novella di Guy de Maupassant, un piccolo capolavoro, una "favola per adulti", come è stata opportunamente definita. Scritta nel 1880 si ispira alla guerra franco-prussiana del 1870 e rappresenta una delle espressioni più elevate dell'ironia e della satira antiborghese della letteratura mondiale. Si racconta del viaggio in diligenza che una ragazza dalla discutibile moralità si appresta a fare in compagnia di alcune cosiddette "persone per bene".

Questo bravo dottore è un personaggio piuttosto grottesco, alla ricerca della verità assoluta, della pietra filosofale.Un giorno pone gli occhi su un manoscritto trovato per caso: una raccolta di metempsicosi che ripercorre le avventure del suo misterioso autore, passate successivamente, dall'anno 184, dallo stato di filosofo, poeta, architetto e del marinaio. La lettura di questo libro ha convinto Doctor Gloss a convertirsi alla pratica di Pitagora. Sceglie la "metempsicosi" e l'amore universale per i vivi.

Guy de Maupassant nella novella Chissà!? descrive la incredibile avventura del protagonista, "un solitario, un sognatore", che viveva nella sua casa, circondato da cose, ninnoli, mobili, ai quali era affezionato tanto da sentirli importanti come persone e che una sera mettono in atto una inspiegabile rivolta e "decidono" di andarsene dalla casa in cui erano "ospiti". Vi torneranno poi, altrettanto misteriosamente, ma il protagonista essendo rimasto sconvolto per l'accaduto, dopo un viaggio, decide di farsi ricoverare in una casa di cura.