Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: Indialog Publications
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 1116
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187981768
Description
Widely hailed as a naturalist author, Maupassant based the subjects of his stories on the life he saw and lived-the Norman peasantry, Franco-Prussian War, bourgeoisie and fashionable Paris, among others. His stories are brief and transparent anecdotes, depicting a sweeping range-from the tragic to the comic aspects of life. Nearly every story is built around ordinary episodes from routine lives, and they offer insights into the unknown and hidden sides of his characters.
Frustration, immorality, disillusionment, and even madness, were some of the issues he kept returning to. His stories are characterized by accurate observation, controlled objectivity and a flawless writing technique often marked by a wry humour. Countless writers, including Somerset Maugham and O Henry, are believed to have fashioned their literature on Maupassant's brilliant pen.
Contents
A Family
Story Of A Farm Girl
In the Moonlight
Simon’s Papa
Madame Tellier’s Excursion
A Cock Crowed
Tombstones
A Country Excursion
In the Spring
Ghosts
The Rabbit
That Pig of a Morin
Love
The Father
The Umbrella
Waiter, a Bock!
Miss Harriet
The Colonel’s Idea
An Affair of State
Bellflower
The Necklace
Madame Parisse
The Inn
Epiphany
Julie Romain
The Charm Dispelled
Saved
The Artist
The Devil
The Mad Woman
The False Gems
Two Little soldiers
The Impolite Sex
A Peculiar Case
Boule De Suif
Two Friends
The Lancer’s Wife
The Prisoners
Father Milon
Lieutenant Lare’s Marriage
The Horrible
Mademoiselle Fifi
A Duel
Mother Sauvage
Madame Baptiste
The Question of Latin
A Meeting
The Blind Man
Indiscretion
A Family Affair
Beside Schopenhauer’s Corpse
Little Louise Roque
The Donkey
Moiron
The Dispenser of Holy Water
A Parricide
Bertha
The Patron
The Door
A Sale
A Wedding Gift
The Relic
The Moribund
The Gamekeeper
The Wreck
Theodule Sabot’s Confession
The Wrong House
The Marquis De Fumerol
The Trip of Le Horla
Farewell!
The Wolf
Monsieur Parent
Queen Hortense
Timbuctoo
Mademoiselle Pearl
The Thief
After
Forgiveness
A Queer Night In Paris
That Costly Ride
Useless Beauty
My Uncle Sosthenes
The Baroness
Mother and Son
The Hand
A Tress of Hair
On the River
The Cripple
A Stroll
Alexandre
The Log
The Rondoli Sisters
Fascination
Yvette Samoris
A Vendetta
My Twenty-Five Days
The Terror
Legend of Mont St Michael
A New Year’s Gift
Friend Patience
Abandoned
Denis
My Wife
The Unknown
The Apparition
The Kiss
The Legion of Honor
The Test
Found on a Drowned Man
The Orphan
The Beggar
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
Toine
Madame Husson’s Rosier
Coward
Old Mongilet
The First Snowfall
Preparations for the Excursion
Fishing Excursion
Two Celebrities
Before the Celebration
An Experiment in Love
A Dinner and Some Opinions
A Recollection
Our Letters
The Lovers of Long Ago
Friend Joseph
The Effeminates
Old Amable
Moonlight
The Christening
The Farmer’s Wife
The Snipe
The Will
Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure
At Sea
Minuet
The Son
Saint Anthony
Pierrot
A Normandy Joke
Father Matthew
Belhomme’s Beast
The Accursed Bread
The diary of a Madman
The Mask
The Penguin’s Rock
Suicides
An Artifice
Dreams
The Child
Rose
Rosalie Prudent
Regret
A Sister’s Confession
Dead Woman’s Secret
A Humble Drama
Mademoiselle Cocotte
The Corsican Bandit
The Grave
Old Judas
The Little Cask
Boitelle
A Widow
The Englishman of Etretat
Magnetism
A Father’s Confession
A Mother of Monsters
An Uncomfotable Bed
A Portrait
The Drunkard
The Wardrobe
The Mountain Pool
A Cremation
Misti
Madame Hermet
The Magic Cough