Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
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HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT
The Necklace
The Man with the Pale Eyes
An Uncomfortable Bed
Ghosts
Fear
The Confession
The Horla, or Modern Ghosts
PIERRE MILLE
The Miracle of Zobéide
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM
The Torture by Hope
ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN
The Owl's Ear
The Invisible Eye
The Waters of Death
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Melmoth Reconciled4
The Conscript
Introduction to Zadig the Babylonian
FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE
THE BLIND OF ONE EYE
THE NOSE
THE DOG AND THE HORSE
THE ENVIOUS MAN
THE GENEROUS
THE MINISTER
THE DISPUTES AND THE AUDIENCES
THE WOMAN BEATEN
THE STONE
THE FUNERAL PILE
THE SUPPER
THE ROBBER
THE FISHERMAN
THE BASILISK
THE COMBATS
THE HERMIT
THE ENIGMAS
PEDRO DE ALARÇON
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
LUIGI CAPUANA
The Deposition
LUCIUS APULEIUS
The Adventure of the Three Robbers
PLINY, THE YOUNGER
Letter to Sura
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She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, by any rich and distinguished man; and she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction.
She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was as unhappy as though she had really fallen from her proper station; since with women there is neither caste nor rank; and beauty, grace, and charm act instead of family and birth. Natural fineness, instinct for what is elegant, suppleness of wit, are the sole hierarchy, and make from women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies.
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She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.
Loisel returned at night with a hollow, pale face; he had discovered nothing.
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