Résultats de "Guy de Maupassant" dans Toutes les catégories

Mit Boule de Suif gelang Maupassant literarischer Durchbruch.

Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Wahnsinn. In Tagebucheinträgen beobachtet ein Mann an sich selbst, wie er urplötzlich alle Lebensfreude verliert und körperlich mehr und mehr verfällt. Die Ursache seines Verfalls vermutet er in einem unsichtbaren Wesen, das ihm nachts die Lebenskraft aus dem Leib saugt. Er versucht, die Existenz des "Horla" zu belegen und weiß irgendwann selbst nicht mehr, wie weit er seiner eigenen Wahrnehmung noch trauen kann.

A delightful collection of 10 of Guy de Maupassant's most famous tales: "The Parrot", "The Love of Long Ago", "Mademoiselle Fifi", "Miss Harriet", "An Uncomfortable Bed", "A Queer Night in Paris", "My Uncle Jules", "The Piece of String", "The Necklace", and "Found on a Drowned Man".

In questo racconto lungo Guy De Maupassant, alternando serietà e sarcasmo, propone uno spaccato di borghesi francesi che , vuoti di valori e permeati di ipocrisia, vengono a patti con tutto pur di accaparrarsi una eredità milionaria. Amico di Flaubert. Emile Zola, da cui fu profondamente influenzato, Maupassant spesso ritrae nelle sue opere la stupidità, la cupidigia, la crudeltà e soprattutto la meschinità, e il riso è più amaro che dolce. Cornice musicale di Paul Dukas.

No one plumbs deeper depths of the psyche than French and Russian authors. This second wide-ranging collection of 19th-century literary masterworks, presented in their entirety, not only entertains, but provides insight into 19th-century mores and the mysteries of human nature.

"Bola de sebo", que muchos creen es uno de los mejores cuentos de Maupassant, fue publicado originalmente en una coleccion dirigida por Zola y es un ataque a la moral burguesa que acepta que una mujer se entregue para salvarlos a todos, pero despues por haberse entregado es mirada con desprecio. Igualmente esta "El collar" con su sorpresivo desenlace y el tierno "Padre de Simon", ademas de otra serie de cuentos que son testimonio de la grandeza del autor.

Los dos hermanos, Pedro y Juan, son rivales por el amor de una mujer y Pedro hace uso de toda clase de recursos para traicionar a su hermano, que parece ser el exitoso.

Paolo Saverini’s widow lives with her son and his dog in a small house on the cliffs of Bonifacio. One evening, Antoine Saverini is stabbed, and the murderer escapes across the bay to Sardinia. The old lady swears she will have revenge . . .

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the daily lives of humans, which often reveal our darker nature. His years of service in the Franco-Prussian War provided him with rich material for his work.

Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. His narratives are characterized by an economy of style and the efficient way in which the various threads are neatly resolved. In "The False Jewels", a man who dotes on his wife is crushed by her unexpected death and then astounded by a revelation about her costume jewelry.

A lesson on the power of vanity, "The Necklace" tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loisel and her husband. Mathilde always imagined herself as a socialite with beautiful gowns and wonderful jewels. Her husband, however, is a lowly clerk and the two have little money. Desperate to attend an important party, she borrows a friend's diamond necklace to match the dress her husband bought for her. But when Mathilde loses the expensive jewels, she nearly destroys her life in an effort to pay back the debt.

A colourful palette of short stories featuring artists and their love of paintings. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain, "The Cat" by E. F. Benson, "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde, "A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant, "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome, "Miss Harriet" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe, "My Adventure at Chislehurst" by A. J. Alan, "The Stalled Ox" by Saki, "The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson.

Der Erzähler findet in seinem Hotelzimmer ein Tagebuch von einem seiner "Vorbewohner". Hieraus zitiert er dessen 25-tägigen Aufenthalt in einem Kurort in Frankreich, der seine Leber und seinen Magen behandeln und abnehmen muss.

A comprehensive collection of superb classic 30-minute short stories. Perfect for commuters, joggers or bedtime listening.

Die DREI-Trilogie der Lauscherlounge als Gesamtausgabe! Drei Gruselgeschichten, drei Märchen und drei Erzählungen über die Liebe, interpretiert von den Sprechern der "Drei ???"...

Siamo nella Francia della seconda metà dell’Ottocento, durante la guerra Franco-Prussiana. Tre di questi sei racconti ce la descrivono come occasione di meschinità, piccole vigliaccherie, ma anche di impensati e imprevisti patriottismi; gli altri racconti, brevi lampi dolce amari, sempre ironici sono ambientati nelle campagne francesi ma anche nella sensuale e misteriosa Africa, vista con gli occhi dei colonizzatori francesi. Cornice musicale: Paul Dukas.

A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal at that other little animal which had suddenly come to lie in his father's and mother's arms and to be loved and fondled by them.

"A Ghost" is an old man's reminiscence of a supernatural event that has haunted him for more than half a century....

In the decade between 1880 and 1890 Guy de Maupassant published over 300 short stories in a variety of modes, including the supernatural legend, the surprise-ending tale, and the realistic story. He also contributed to the sophistication of the horror story by pushing it even further than Edgar Allan Poe into the modern mode of psychological obsession and madness. In Am I Insane? Maupassant's focus is on how an obsession becomes so powerful that it is translated into murderous action.

Selections include: "The Duel" and "The Umbrella" by Guy de Maupasssant; "The Schartz-Metterklume Method", "The Open Window", and "The Story Teller" by Saki; "The Scandal Monger" and "Verochka" by Anton Chekhov; and "The Wardrobe" by Thomas Mann.