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A peasant attending the market in the neighboring town stoops to pick up a piece of string from the road. Later that day, he is maliciously accused of picking up a lost pocketbook containing five hundred francs and some valuable business papers. Although he is innocent of the charge, and the pocketbook is later handed in to the mayor by the person who actually found it, the taint of the accusation remains. The more the man protests his innocence, the less he is believed.

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".

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 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.

An invisible alien parasite slowly takes over the penetrating mind of a French nobleman. He slowly loses control over his thoughts, his words, and his deeds. Is it insanity? Or is it the Horla?

Sbornik rasskazov "Lunnyy svet" zaklyuchaet v sebe obrazcovye novelly zamechatel'nogo mastera francuzskoy prozy. Pri vsey vneshney svoey prostote rasskazy Mopassana porazhayut izyashchestvom stilisticheskogo vyrazheniya, kotoroe prekrasno peredano russkimi perevodchikami nashey staroy shkoly. V nih kak v miniatyure predstavlen ves' shirochayshiy tematicheskiy diapazon velikih romanov ehtogo pisatelya.

Cikly novell izvestnogo francuzskogo pisatelya Gi de Mopassana "Voskresnye progulki parizhskogo burzhua" (1880) i "Madmuazel' Fifi" (1882) yavlyayutsya yarkimi obrazcami vysokogo masterstva ih avtora, zamechatel'nogo stilista, umeyushchego v lakonichnyh, prostyh i yasnyh frazah sozdat' zhivopisnye, zapominayushchiesya obrazy: melkogo burzhua, zabludivshegosya v parke Sen-Klu ili predayushchegosya ubogomu vesel'yu v kompanii svoego sosluzhivca; naglogo i presyshchennogo prusskogo oficera po prozvishchu "madmuazel' Fifi", razvlekayushchegosya v obshchestve prostitutok; dvuh priyateley-rybolovov, otkazavshihsya skazat' vragu parol' i rasstrelyannyh za ehto; strastnoy i cel'noy v svoey strasti Marokki i mnogie drugie.

All human foibles can be found in these classic short stories. Great stories, simply told with fresh voices. Shortalk - moving words off the page.

Berühmte Autoren der Weltliteratur mit ihren besten Kurzgeschichten in ungekürzter Form: Mark Twain, Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, F. M. Dostojewski, August Strindberg, Joachim Ringelnatz, Guy de Maupassant, Heinrich Bredow, Honoré de Balzac, Ernst Kossak, Karl Ettlinger, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Friedrich Glauser, Georg Bötticher, Theodor Fontane, Rainer Maria Rilke, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johanna Spyri, Gottfried Keller, Friedrich Hebbel.

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection. Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically.

Ten classic short stories from the quills of great bird-loving authors.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), a French author, was one of the most influential short story writers of the 19th century. 'Le Horla' is a truly terrifying story of a man, told through the pages of his diary, who is under the malign influence of some strange, invisible, parasitic being which saps his life energy. De Maupassant's clear, pragmatic language contrasts eerily with the ghastly and macabre narrative and draws the listener into the sheer terror of the situation.

Desiree is married to a wealthy but violent captain of a fishing trawler. For ten years of marriage he terrorizes her, until one night his boat is wrecked at sea and he is never seen alive again. Four years later, Desiree buys an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed parrot in an auction, and a new nightmare begins.

La Gordinflona es la historia de una prostituta francesa. Guy de Maupassant utiliza la imagen de esta mujer como representación del pueblo francés, sin títulos ni dinero, engañados por la clase dirigente, derrotados. Son ellos quienes sufren las verdaderas consecuencias de la guerra. Boule de Suif (o La Gordinflona) nos presenta también la hipocresía de las clases acomodadas de la época, más interesadas en su propio beneficio que en el de Francia.