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  • The Diamond Necklace

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Albert Marian Cohn-McMaster ...
    Series series World Classics
    "The Diamond Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant portrays the complexities and consequences of keeping up appearances in the 19th century. Mathilde is a young and beautiful woman, struggling with the ordinary circumstances of her life and marriage. When she is invited to a fancy ball with her husband, she borrows a diamond necklace from a friend. To her horror, she finds the necklace to be gone by the ... Read more

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  • Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 9 (Summer Tales)

    The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, The Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant, The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather and others

    by Ivan Turgenev, Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield, Sarah Orne Jewett, D. H. Lawrence, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Charles W. Chesnutt, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett, Albert M. C. Mcmaster, Louise And Aylmer Maude ...
    In this collection of classic short stories readers will encounter some of the finest writing in world literature:Contents:Byezhin Prairie by Ivan TurgenevThe Enchanted Bluff by Willa CatherThe Garden Party by Katherine MansfieldA White Heron by Sarah Orne JewettThe Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. LawrenceGooseberries by Anton ChekhovHow Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo TolstoyThe Sheriff's ... Read more

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  • The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. Illustrated

    The Diamond Necklace, Boule de Suif, The Piece of String, Two Friend and other short stories

    by Guy de Maupassant, Mme. Quesada ...
    Translated by Albert M. C. Mcmaster, A. E. Henderson ...
    Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassantwas a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly ... Read more

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  • Original Short Stories of Maupassant

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson ...
    Over the course of his career, French writer Guy de Maupassant made a number of important contributions to the then-emergent genre of short stories. Today, critics regard him as one of the most accomplished virtuosos of short fiction. This comprehensive collection of Maupassant's short works showcases the writer's unique talents, which include an unvarnished, straightforward style and a mastery of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 12

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    Lemonnier had remained a widower with one child. He had loved his wife devotedly, with a tender and exalted love, without a slip, during their entire married life. He was a good, honest man, perfectly simple, sincere, without suspicion or malice. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 06

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    The household lived frugally on the meager income derived from the husband's insignificant appointments. Two children had been born of the marriage, and the earlier condition of the strictest economy had become one of quiet, concealed, shamefaced misery, the poverty of a noble family— which in spite of misfortune never forgets its rank. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 03

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    There were seven of us on a drag, four women and three men; one of the latter sat on the box seat beside the coachman. We were ascending, at a snail's pace, the winding road up the steep cliff along the coast. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 10

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    The old ship's surgeon, holding out his glass, watched it as it slowly filled with the golden liquid. Then, holding it in front of his eyes, he let the light from the lamp stream through it, smelled it, tasted a few drops and smacked his lips with relish. Then he said ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 04

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    The warm autumn sun was beating down on the farmyard. Under the grass, which had been cropped close by the cows, the earth soaked by recent rains, was soft and sank in under the feet with a soggy noise, and the apple trees, loaded with apples, were dropping their pale green fruit in the dark green grass. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 02

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    “Upon my word, ” said Colonel Laporte, "although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two pieces of wood, yet if a pretty woman were to tell me to go through the eye of a needle, I believe I should take a jump at it, like a clown through a hoop. I shall die like that; it is in the blood. I am an old beau, one of the old school, and the sight of a woman, a pretty woman, stirs me to the tips of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 05

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    George's father was sitting in an iron chair, watching his little son with concentrated affection and attention, as little George piled up the sand into heaps during one of their walks. He would take up the sand with both hands, make a mound of it, and put a chestnut leaf on top. His father saw no one but him in that public park full of people. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Original Short Stories — Volume 08

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    How strange those old recollections are which haunt us, without our being able to get rid of them. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD