Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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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