Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant. Guy de MaupassantЧитать онлайн книгу.
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THE RABBIT
A RECOLLECTION
REGRET
THE RELIC
ON THE RIVER
THE RONDOLI SISTERS
ROSALIE PRUDENT
ROSE
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SAINT ANTHONY
A SALE
AT SEA
SIMON'S PAPA
A SISTER'S CONFESSION
THE SNIPE
THE FIRST SNOWFALL
THE SON
THE SPASM
A STROLL
SUICIDES
SUNDAYS OF A BOURGEOIS
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“THE TERROR”
THE TEST
THE ADOPTED SON
THEODULE SABOT'S CONFESSION
THE THIEF
TIMBUCTOO
TOMBSTONES
A TRESS OF HAIR
THE TRIP OF LE HORLA
MY TWENTY-FIVE DAYS
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MY UNCLE JULES
MY UNCLE SOSTHENES
AN UNCOMFORTABLE BED
THE UNKNOWN
USELESS BEAUTY
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A VAGABOND
A VENDETTA
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WAITER, A “BOCK”
WALTER SCHNAFFS' ADVENTURE
THE WARDROBE
A WEDDING GIFT
A WIDOW
THE WILL
THE WOLF
IN THE WOOD
THE WRECK
THE WRONG HOUSE
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YVETTE SAMORIS
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES
VOLUME I.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
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. … .
In the month of April, 1880, an article appeared in the “Le Gaulois” announcing the publication of the Soirees de Medan. It was signed by a name as yet unknown: Guy de Maupassant. After a juvenile diatribe against romanticism and a passionate attack on languorous literature, the writer extolled the study of real life, and announced the publication of the new work. It was picturesque and charming. In the quiet of evening, on an island, in the Seine, beneath poplars instead of the Neapolitan cypresses dear to the friends of Boccaccio, amid the continuous murmur of the valley, and no longer to the sound of the Pyrennean streams that murmured a faint accompaniment to the tales of Marguerite's cavaliers, the master and his disciples took turns in narrating some striking or pathetic episode of the war. And the issue, in collaboration, of these tales in one volume, in which the master jostled elbows with his pupils, took on the appearance of a manifesto, the tone of a challenge, or the utterance of a creed.
In fact, however, the beginnings had