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Opulence is sometimes deceiving. Madame Mathilde Loisel is displeased, she cannot go to a fancy party because she doesn't have anything to wear. Her husband tries to help her and gives her money to buy a new dress. She insists she also needs jewels so she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. After the party, Mathilde realizes that she lost the stunning necklace.
3) The Hand
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A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room. Nothing seems too suspicious until the hand is mysteriously reclaimed.
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Ce livre audio comprend les nouvelles : Mademoiselle Fifi, Madame Baptiste, La Rouille et Marroca. Quatre textes dans lesquels Maupassant fait montre de son talent à la fois de conteur d'histoires, et de critique de l'âme humaine, les bassesses et les maladresses sont racontées avec réalisme, mais aussi avec tendresse.
6) Fettklößchen
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Eine bunt gemischte Gesellschaft bricht zur Zeit des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges auf, um nach Le Havre zu fahren. Eine der Frauen, Fettklößchen genannt, ist ein fröhliches, zur Dickleibigkeit neigendes Straßenmädchen. Bei einem Zwischenhalt wird die Gesellschaft von einem preußischen Offizier, der einen Liebesdienst von Fettklößchen erpressen will, an der Weiterreise gehindert. Das Schicksal der Reisegesellschaft liegt nun in den Händen...
7) Stories
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Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of its finest exponents. From the humorous to the tragic to the gruesome, with an economy and precision of language, his stories can delight or disturb. Here are ten of them.
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Madame Tellier, stolze Besitzerin eines Pariser Freudenhauses, macht mit ihrer Belegschaft eine Landpartie zur Kommunionsfeier ihrer Nichte. Unter dem Eindruck der religiösen Feierlichkeiten und sakralen Mystik finden die Damen zu neuer Lust an der Liebe ... Guy de Maupassants berühmte und hochvergnügliche Erzählung als Hörbuch.
9) Bel Ami
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Guy de Maupassant, one of the 19th century's most admired French writers, is considered to be one of the fathers of the modern short story. Maupassant's stories are characterized by their wealth of style, clever plotting and effortless resolutions. Many of his stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge from catastrophe and change. "Bel Ami",...
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El amor a la vida y a la juventud, melancólicamente representada por un viejo pintor que anhela volver vivir su amor por la condesa a través de su hija, es la historia que Guy de Maupassant relata en esta novela dura y trágica, que pareciera a simple vista, un relato de un amor malogrado, de esos que hay muchos. Pero no es así. Es el grito desesperado de un pobre viejo por volver a vivir sus años más fulgurantes, donde amó con más ardor y...
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En la presente publicación, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), narrador por excelencia de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX francés, nos da muestras de su dominio de todos los resortes del arte de narrar, con un estilo lingüístico y literario insuperable, de aparente sencillez pero difícil de conseguir. Esta compilación de sus más famosos relatos breves nos permite apreciar cómo su pluma cincela las frases como un buril grabando sobre cristal duro...
12) Bel-Ami
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Bel-Ami é um romance realista publicado em 1885 sob a forma de folhetim. O romance explora a sociedade e as atitudes em relação à riqueza, ao poder e ao oportunismo, retratando a ascensão social de Georges Duroy, homem ambicioso e sedutor, além de arrivista e oportunista, lançado ao topo sociedade parisiense graças à ajuda das amantes e do conluio entre a imprensa, as finanças e a política. Maupassant descreve as ligações existentes entre...
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Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
14) Pierre and Jean
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Considered Maupassant's greatest novel, "Pierre and Jean" is vivid, satirical, and emotionally profound. The Roland brothers, Pierre and Jean, have always been driven by competition. When a lawyer arrives at the house of their parents to declare that an old family friend has bestowed his entire fortune to Jean, the envy hastily becomes an ardent force for Pierre. Roaming the seaport of Le Havre alone, Pierre contemplates, desperate to come to terms...
15) Afloat
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Afloat, originally published as Sur l'eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in a wholly original style. Humorous and troubling stories, unreliable confessions, stray reminiscences, and thoughts on life, love, art, nature,...
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The novel is set in Paris in the upper-middle class environment of the leading journalists of the newspaper La Vie Française and their friends. It tells the story of Georges Duroy, who has spent three years in military service in Algeria. After working for six months as a clerk in Paris, an encounter with his former comrade, Forestier, enables him to start a career as a journalist. From a reporter of minor events and soft news, he gradually climbs...
17) Pierre et Jean
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Une édition de référence de Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Jean, aussi blond que son frère était noir, aussi calme que son frère était emporté, aussi doux que son frère était rancunier, avait fait tranquillement son droit et venait d'obtenir son diplme de licencié en même temps que Pierre obtenait celui de docteur. [...]
Mais une vague jalousie, une de ces jalousies...
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Extrait: "Les premiers baigneurs, les matineux déjà sortis de l'eau se promenaient à pas lents, deux par deux ou solitaires, sous les grands arbres, le long du ruisseau qui descend des gorges d'Enval. D'autres arrivaient du village, et entraient dans l'établissement d'un air pressé."
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This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday, spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers,...
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Extrait : "Dans le bureau, le père Mongilet passait pour un type. C'était un vieil employé bon enfant qui n'était sorti de Paris qu'une fois en sa vie. Nous étions alors aux derniers jours de juillet, et chacun de nous, chaque dimanche, allait se rouler sur l'herbe ou se tremper dans l'eau dans les campagnes environnantes."
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