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Set during the hunting season, the Chateau Baneville is peopled with guests waiting for the weather to improve.After half-heartedly playing board games, they tell stories. None is so shocking as the one told by Genevieve and the boy who loved her in her youth. With allusions to mental illness and obsession, this is a dark romantic tale, sure to promote some heated conversation. Touching on similar themes as Robert Redfords Ordinary People,A Widow is a tragic love story.It will delight fans of other tragic love stories such as Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet and Victor Hugos The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Colone Laporte has an opinion about everything. Colonel Laporte is also right about everything. Or so he thinks. During a conversation with a friend, he is preaching his opinion about French people. He claims that they are famous for their attitudes towards members of the opposite sex. His friend disagrees. Frustrated and attempting to get his point across, he begins to tell the story of an encounter he had during the Franco-Prussian War. Only as his story continues does it become clear just how shocking this encounter was.This fast-paced tale is unmissable for fans of Ambrose Bierce.

Just like Jack Nicholsons character in About Schmidt, the narrator of A Recollection is feeling useless.He feels, to quote Morrissey, that Everyday is Like Sunday. To shake himself from his drudgery, he decides to take a stroll from Paris to catch a boat to Saint-Cloud. After a dreamy stroll, he encounters a married couple, who seem to be in a spot of bother. Taken with the wife, the narrator agrees to help them, but will her company help or hinder his need for excitement? Combining romance with waspish humour, Maupassant offers an interesting slice of middle-age life.With memory as its central theme, A Recollection is the ideal read for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro.

Have you ever experienced a hot air balloon ride?This short story describes a trip from Paris to Belgium taken by the popular French author Guy de Maupassant. Describing in detail every sight and sound, he takes readers on a balloon ride like no other. The three crew members and three passengers watch the sunset and moonrise and experience the threat of a looming storm. Views of Paris and the beautiful French and Belgian countryside below are also eloquently brought to life. The Trip of Le Horla (1887) is perfect for fans of his short stories and readers of 19th-century travel books.

Laying the foundations for films such as Mother and Child, starring Naomi Watts and Samuel L Jackson, Abandoned packs a lot into a short space. As a younger woman, Madame de Cadour gave birth to an illegitimate son. She and her then-lover, Henri put the child up for adoption, but she has wondered about him ever since. 40 years later, she decides to try and find him with Henris help, and her husband is oblivious to the whole thing. Will Madame de Cadour and Henri find their son, or are some things best left unresolved? A haunting short story of love, loss, and betrayal, Abandoned is perfect for fans of Kristin Harmels When We Meet Again.

Fun and intriguing stories are an integral part of every dinner party. In Paris, a man chats with friends after dinner and recounts the story of his recent visit to a brothel. After choosing a woman, he follows her back to her apartment for the night but is shocked when he hears a noise coming from the wardrobe...Short yet impactful, The Wardrobe is perfect for fans of Guy de Maupassants work and readers of French Literature.

Vicino a Parigi, ogni anno, vengono incoronate le rosieres: giovani donne che ricevono una corona di rose come ricompensa per la loro virtu. Alla signora Husson viene lidea di donare una rosiere a una donna di Gisors. Consulta chiunque: labate, la domestica, il sindaco, il medico Nulla, sembra che nessuna giovane sia sfuggita alle maldicenze! La signora Husson e ferita nellorgoglio, ma la domestica Françoise ha unalternativa: un rosier.

A mediados del siglo XIX, en un tranquilo pueblo francés, se descubre un espantoso crimen: una joven ha sido violada y estrangulada; su cadáver, desnudo, es hallado a la orilla del río. Pronto se hace patente que el autor es uno de los habitantes del pueblo; pero, ¿de quién se trata?

Guy de Maupassant conrea la novel·la, la novel·la curta i la narració, i en cada una de les modalitats deixa a la història de la literatura veritables obres mestres. Destaca, no obstant, la seva dedicació a la narració, activitat en la qual va assentar les bases del conte modern. El seus relats se serveixen de practicament tots els gèneres (de terror, policíac, romantic...), i en tots ells ens ofereix clares visions del seu temps. Aquest volum en reuneix dues mostres delicioses, tot i que d'un intens dramatisme. El lector obtindra una clara visió de per què el nom de Maupassant encapçala la llista dels narradors moderns.

La cita y otros cuentos compilación de cinco relatos de Guy de Maupassant escritos entre 1883 y 1889. La cita, La confidencia, La desconocida, Al borde del lecho y Las joyas aparecieron publicados en las recompilaciones Clair de Lune, Monsieur Parent, Boule de Suif o en periódicos como L'Écho de Paris. Escritor de las postrimerías del siglo XIX y fiel reflejo de su época, Guy de Maupassant fue un misógino, pero aun así la mujer es parte importante en su obra y protagonista de muchos de sus relatos. La relación hombre-mujer y los problemas conyugales en sus escritos revelan un profundo interés del autor por estos temas. Haber reunido estos cinco cuentos en un solo volumen responde a que todos ellos tienen un hilo conductor que los une y aproxima; una visión entre irónica y crítica de la mujer, de su relación con los hombres, y un mismo marco geográfico: la ciudad de París, donde transcurre la acción.

"¿Quién puede preveer si mis historias sobrevivirán? ¿Quién puede saberlo? Hoy te consideran un gran hombre y la próxima generación te tira al mar. La gloria es cuestión de suerte, una jugada a los dados, mientras el amor es una sensación nueva arrancada a la nada". Guy de Maupassant No solo han sobrevivido las historias de Guy de Maupausssant, escritas hace más de un siglo, sino que tienen una actualidad sorprendente, que lo convierten en el maestro indiscutido del relato breve de la literatura universal. Las mujeres han ocupado un lugar de privilegio en la obra y en la vida del discípulo de Flaubert, y aparecen como protagonistas en cada uno de sus relatos. En esta colección de cuentos el autor de Bola de Sebo sigue sorprendiendo con sus hallazgos formales y sus ideas revulsivas.

"Une Vie" (AKA "A Womans Life") is a French novel from 1883 written by Guy de Maupassant. It is his first novel, published during a period of French history where literature was blossoming. The most popular and perhaps the greatest of Maupassants full-length novels, "Une Vie" is the story of the unfortunate Jeanne, a Norman gentlewoman. The book begins with her returning home after five years in a convent. She is aged seventeen and is happy to be returning to the Poplars, the home of her loving parents. Little by little she will become an adult and create a family...Avarice and lechery, cruelty and greed, conspire against Jeanne wherever she goes: her husband turns out to be a lascivious boor, her son a heedless spendthrift. In the end she is forced to sell her old family house just to stay alive...

Lo temible no viene sólo de las sombras o de las criptas subterráneas. Las historias que se reúnen en este volumen son pequeñas obras maestras sobre los abismos que nos acechan. Sólo los grandes escritores, como los que se incluyen aquí: Herbert George Wells, M.R. James, Sheridan Le fanu, Ambrose Bierce, William Hope Hodgson, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, y Hans Heinz Ewers, son capaces de comunicarlas. Incluye: - La historia del Difunto Señor Elvesham, de H.G. Wells - Corazones Perdidos, de M.R. James - Schalken, el Pintor, de Sheridan Le-Fanu - Visiones de la Noche, de Ambrose Bierce - La Voz en la Noche, de William Hope Hodgson - El Horla, de Guy de Maupassant - La Marca de la bestia, de Rudyard Kipling - El Libro del Canónigo Alberigo, de M.R. James - La Araña, de Hans Heinz Ewers - El Loco, de Guy de Maupassant - El Grabado, de M.R. James

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