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Meisterwerk der französischen Literatur. Die Hauptfigur von "Eine Million", Léopold Bonnin, ist mit einer Frau verheiratet, deren Tante reich ist. Als sie stirbt, erfährt das Paar, dass die Erbschaft innerhalb von drei Jahren dem ersten Kind zugeschrieben wird. Die Zeit vergeht, kein Kind kommt. Die Stimmung des Paares verschlechtert sich erheblich, bis Leopold seinen Freund Frédéric Morel in sein Haus einführt... Guy de Maupassant wurde als Sohn einer lothringischen Adelsfamilie am 05.08.1850 auf Schloß Miromesnil bei Dieppe geboren.

This 1906 short story collection by O. Henry presents some of his most famous stories like "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The title refers to the population of New York city at that time and was a witty response to a newspaper editorial stating New York only held 400 people worth knowing. These short stories strongly communicate the fragile nature of human relations and are combined with O. Henry’s legendary moral lessons.

Would you be able to spend a million dollars in cash and leave yourself penniless if it meant you would then be given many more millions? That’s poor Monty Brewster’s dilemma in this charming tale.

The Four Million was written in 1906 when roughly four million people lived in New York City. It opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were only "400" people in New York City who were really worth noticing.

A young man receives a great windfall but is prevented from fully exploiting his good fortune until he has met certain exacting preliminary conditions. In this case, Montgomery Brewster, an eligible but impecunious young bachelor, receives a bequest of $1,000,000 from a relative. Shortly afterward he is notified that he has been nominated as the beneficiary of another and much larger bequest, but under a strict qualification: He must dispose of the initial bequest in total within a year.

Der Menschenfreund und Biologe Dr. Sarrasin aus Paris staunt nicht schlecht, als er erfährt, daß er der legitime Erbe des Vermögens einer indischen Fürstin sein soll. Als Wissenschaftler zögert er nicht lange, sondern macht sich sofort daran, France-Ville zu planen - eine Stadt, die zum Wohle der Bewohner nach streng biologisch-hygienischen Regeln gebaut werden soll...

Nikki is a horror novelist. Her choice of career is dictated by an obsessive compulsive disorder that forces her to write stories of death and destruction. She can't control it, doesn't understand it, but can use it to make money anywhere in the world. Currently "anywhere" is in Japan, hiding from her mother who sees Nikki's OCD as proof she's mentally unstable. Nikki's fragile peace starts to fall apart when the police arrest her for the murder of an American expatriate. Someone killed him with a blender.

Les nouvelles de Maupassant ont révélé tout le génie et toute la particularité de cet auteur, qui a mis le fantastique, l'histoire de genre, et la nouvelle normande sur un pied d'égalité en littérature. Les mots racontent simplement une histoire mais c'est tout un monde qui est mis en place et toute une époque qui nous est donnée à entendre.

Two wealthy gentlemen decide to give a poor stranger a million-pound bank note to see what he will do with it. The results are very unexpected.

The story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to it, charged with theft and arrested. He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it.

In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Million Dollar Bond Robbery,” Poirot must prove the innocence of a young bank manager who has had a million dollars in bonds stolen from him while on a boat voyage to New York. Could it be one of his superiors? And why were the bonds being sold in New York before his ship arrived? This short story originally appeared in the May 2, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.