Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

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Guy de Maupassant. Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

Maupassant Original Short Stories. THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES

by Guy de Maupassant

Translated by. ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others

CONTENTS

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES

VOLUME I

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

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

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 2

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

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 3

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 "To the Abbe Louis d'Ennemare, at Soissons

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 4

VOLUME IV

THE MORIBUND

THE GAMEKEEPER

THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL

PART I

PART II

PART III

PART IV

PART V

THE WRECK. It was yesterday, the 31st of December

THEODULE SABOT'S CONFESSION

THE WRONG HOUSE

THE DIAMOND NECKLACE

THE MARQUIS DE FUMEROL

THE TRIP OF LE HORLA

FAREWELL!

THE WOLF

THE INN

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 5

VOLUME V

MONSIEUR PARENT

QUEEN HORTENSE

TIMBUCTOO

TOMBSTONES

MADEMOISELLE PEARL

THE THIEF

CLAIR DE LUNE

WAITER, A "BOCK"

AFTER "My darlings," said the comtesse, "you might go to bed."

FORGIVENESS

IN THE SPRING

A QUEER NIGHT IN PARIS

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 6

VOLUME VI

THAT COSTLY RIDE

USELESS BEAUTY. I

THE FATHER. I

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. I

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 7

VOLUME VII

THE FALSE GEMS

FASCINATION

YVETTE SAMORIS "The Comtesse Samoris."

A VENDETTA

MY TWENTY-FIVE DAYS

"THE TERROR"

LEGEND OF MONT ST. MICHEL

A NEW YEAR'S GIFT

FRIEND PATIENCE. What became of Leremy?"

ABANDONED

THE MAISON TELLIER

PART II

PART III

DENIS

MY WIFE

THE UNKNOWN

THE APPARITION

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 8

VOLUME VIII

CLOCHETTE

THE KISS

THE LEGION OF HONOR

THE TEST

FOUND ON A DROWNED MAN

THE ORPHAN

THE BEGGAR. He had seen better days, despite his present misery and infirmities

THE RABBIT

HIS AVENGER

MY UNCLE JULES

THE MODEL

A VAGABOND

THE FISHING HOLE

THE SPASM

IN THE WOOD

MARTINE

ALL OVER

THE PARROT. I

THE PIECE OF STRING

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 9

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

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 10

VOLUME X

THE CHRISTENING "Well doctor, a little brandy?"

THE FARMER'S WIFE. Said the Baron Rene du Treilles to me:

THE DEVIL

THE SNIPE

THE WILL

WALTER SCHNAFFS' ADVENTURE

AT SEA. The following paragraphs recently appeared in the papers:

MINUET

THE SON

THAT PIG OF A MORIN

SAINT ANTHONY

LASTING LOVE

PIERROT

A NORMANDY JOKE

FATHER MATTHEW

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 11

VOLUME XI

THE UMBRELLA

BELHOMME'S BEAST

DISCOVERY

THE ACCURSED BREAD

THE DOWRY

THE DIARY OF A MADMAN

THE MASK

THE PENGUINS' ROCK. This is the season for penguins

A FAMILY

SUICIDES. To Georges Legrand

AN ARTIFICE

DREAMS

SIMON'S PAPA

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 12

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

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 13

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

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A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX

"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . .

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Then the Prussian took Monsieur Sauvage aside in like manner, and made him the same proposal.

Monsieur Sauvage made no reply.

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