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  • The Necklace and Other Short Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    The French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre. The nine stories in this collection deliver a vivid portrait gallery of his typical subjects—from simple peasants and prostitutes to soldiers, government clerks, and provincial bourgeois. Brilliantly naturalistic, these short ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Essential Novelists - Guy De Maupassant

    aspects of french life

    by Guy de Maupassant, August Nemo ...
    Series Book 44 - Essential Novelists
    Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Guy de Maupassant which are Pierre and Jean and Bel Ami. Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, ... Read more

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  • The Necklace and Other Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    The most famous story in this collection is The Necklace (La Parure), a tale about a young woman named Mathilde Loisel, who dreams of a more luxurious life. When she is invited to a prestigious ball, she borrows an expensive necklace from a friend, only to lose it. In desperation, Mathilde and her husband work for ten years to repay the debt incurred to replace the necklace, only to discover at ... Read more

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  • Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

    by Guy De Maupassant ...
    Discover the incomparable brilliance of Guy de Maupassant, one of the greatest short story writers in world literature. Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant gathers his full body of shorter fiction, presenting a sweeping panorama of human behavior, social tension, moral conflict, and the fragile beauty of ordinary life. From gripping tales of psychological unrest to sharply ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Fear and Was It a Dream?

    Stories: Classic Tales Edition

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Narrated by B.J. Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    30 min

    Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alien Hearts

    Translated by Richard Howard, Richard Howard ...
    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Parrot

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    Series series World Classics
    A drunkard and a brute, Patin's marriage to Désireé is an unhappy one. He leaves to go fishing one night during a terrible storm, and never returns. Désireé is convinced he has somehow managed to cheat death and lives in constant fear of his return. Some years later she buys a parrot, and her nightmare begins anew. Amusing and humorous, "The Parrot" is a short comedy in which Maupassant holds his ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bel-Ami

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Margaret Mauldon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Abandoned

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    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 Henri's help, and her ... Read more

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  • A Family Affair

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. After the split, Maupassant lived with his mother till he was thirteen, and ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pierre and Jean

    Bilingual Edition (English – French)

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Clara Bell ...
    Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot. ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more

    Exploring the Depth of Human Nature in 19th Century France

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Guy de Maupassant's "The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more" stands as a definitive anthology, encapsulating the breadth of his literary genius. Within its pages, readers will encounter Maupassant's masterful narratives that often explore the intricacies of human emotion and the societal mores of 19th-century France. His sharp, naturalistic style is marked by a ... Read more

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