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  • The Mustache

    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    Series series World Classics
    When Jeanne's husband shaves off his mustache, she sees it as a vile, rebellious act committed specifically to upset her, and becomes impatient to embark on a journey of praising its virtues. Eroticism and sexual descriptions make this single epistolary conversation between the two women into an intriguing, humorous piece of art. Maupassant's distinctive voice shines throughout this short story, ... Read more

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  • The Wolf

    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    "People talked of a colossal wolf with gray fur, almost white, who had eaten two children, gnawed off a woman's arm..."A werewolf terrorises locals, devouring livestock and killing children, but brothers Jean and François are determined to find and kill the beast once and for all.Will the hunters become the hunted? ... 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

    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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  • Ecological Methods

    4th edition of this classic Ecology textComputational methods have largely been replaced by descriptions of the available softwareIncludes procedure information for R software and other freely available software systemsNow includes web references for equipment, software and detailed methodologies ... Read more

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 12

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 07

    Monsieur Lantin had met the young girl at a reception at the house of the second head of his department, and had fallen head over heels in love with her. ... Read more

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 09

    He was known for thirty miles round was father Toine— fat Toine, Toine-my-extra, Antoine Macheble, nicknamed Burnt-Brandy— the innkeeper of Tournevent. ... Read more

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 05

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 06

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 08

    How strange those old recollections are which haunt us, without our being able to get rid of them. ... Read more

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 03

    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

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 11

    Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the greatest difficulty in making what the servants call their market-penny, and her husband was hardly allowed any pocket money at all. They were, however, very comfortably off, and had no children; but ... Read more

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