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Maupassant es, junto a Chèjov, el más importante autor de cuentos y relatos del siglo XIX. Escribió más de 300 relatos y cinco novelas. Son especialmente destacables sus cuentos de terror, género en el que es reconocido como maestro, a la altura de Edgar Allan Poe.

Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume IX contains the following titles: Toine; Madame Husson's "Rosier"; The Adopted Son; Coward; Old Mongilet; Moonlight; The First Snowfall; Sundays of a Bourgeois; A Recollection; Our Letters; The Love of Long Ago; Friend Joseph; The Effeminates; and Old Amable.

Una colección de cuentos de horror.

Guy de Maupassant, French master of the short story, 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. Many of his works also centered on the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served. Volume VIII of his Complete Original Short Stories contains the following:

Guy de Maupassant’s achievement was the invention of a new, high-quality, commercial short story, which has something to offer to all kinds of listeners. In The Relic, Henri Fontal, a young agnostic, is engaged to Gilberte who asked him to bring her a relic from his visit to Germany. He cheats by giving her a sheep bone, she discovers his dishonesty, and breaks the engagement. The poor distraught Henri writes to her uncle, the abbé Louis d’Ennemare, an old friend, to beg him to salvage at any cost his engagement with the abbé’s vivacious and very devout niece, Gilberte.

When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who live in the Green Meadows and Green Forest, she recommends Old Mother Nature who is happy to teach him. She tells Peter about a range of creatures such as Arctic Hare and Antelope Jack, Flying Squirrel, Mountain Beaver, Pocket Gopher, Grasshopper Mouse, Silvery Bat, Mule Deer and Grizzly Bear. This absorbing book teaches children about the many forms of wildlife and the animals' relationships with one another.

A Vendetta is a dark short story that shows a grieving old woman's determination to get revenge for her slain son. She wishes that there were either a cousin, father, or brother to carry on this vendetta, but since there’s no one, the mother pursues it. With her living in rage, she has no time to rest and only focuses on the idea of killing the murderer. She trains her dog, doing harsh starvation training to prepare for the day. After the deed is done, she can relax again.

¿Es amor el querer poseer de forma absoluta al ser amado?LA BELLEZA INÚTIL - ¡ Quien va a creer que es amujer ha tenido siete hijos !- Pues los ha tenido, sí señor, en once años. Cuando llegó a los treinta, cerró su período de producción, para entrar en el de exhibición, cuyo final no se adivina todavía. -¡Pobres mujeres!-¿Por qué las compadeces?-¿Por qué? Ponte a pensar un poco, amigo mío. ¡Once años de preñez para una mujer como ésa! ¡Qué infierno!

Bel Ami n el concepto de moralidad de George Duroy, no caben dudas acerca de que cualquier medio es aceptable para conseguir el fin propuesto, ya que las convenciones sociales, no están hechas para el. Acaba de llegar a París, sin un céntimo, pero sabe que gusta a las mujeres y está dispuesto a utilizarlas de la forma que haga falta en su camino al éxito.

Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200.

The Marquis d’Arville recounts to his dinner companions why he has refused to go hunting although his ancestors were fanatical about the sport. For his ancestors, Jean and François, hunting was ''the only thing they spoke of and lived for.'' One day, they heard reports of an enormous wolf that was terrorizing the locals, preying on livestock, injuring guard-dogs, wounding a woman and devouring two children. As a result, the brothers resolve to find and kill the beast. It proved difficult.

The French master of the short story with the twist ending, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), here lets his main character, an unerring knife-thrower in a carnival act with his wife, tell the tale of his maddening situation. An anonymous English translation.

"Mother Sauvage" by Guy de Maupassant is a short horror story of the Franco-Prussian War. The four young Prussian soldiers quartered in the house of Mother Sauvage do chores around the house as if it were their own. Mother Savage continually asks them about the French 23rd Regiment of the Line in which her son is serving, but they know nothing. When she hears of her son’s death, Mother Sauvage exacts revenge on the young soldiers. The story subtly explores the theme of revenge from the perspective of the narrator, and from the perspective of his friend Serval, who tells him the Mother Savage story.

The devil, who lived on the hill across the bay, owned all the rich lands which produced fine crops. One day, St. Michael offered the devil a deal: He would work the land, and they would both share the crops equally. The devil agreed, and Satan declared that he would get everything that grew above the ground, while St. Michael would get the crops that grew underground. So the lands produced nothing but carrots, turnips, onions, and parsnips. Satan was furious, but St. Michael offered to give him everything that grew underground the next year. The following year, all of Satan’s lands were covered with wheat, oats, peas, and cabbage that thrives above ground.

Escritor francés, Henry Réne Guy de Maupassant nació en Dieppe, Francia, el 5 de agosto de 1850 y falleció en París el 6 de julio de 1893. Se formó literariamente con el escritor Gustave Flaubert y participó desde joven en su círculo literario. Se especializó en la narrativa breve, llegando a publicar más de doscientos cuentos a lo largo de su vida, de entre los cuales destacan Bola de sebo y El Horla.

Escritor francés, Henry Réne Guy de Maupassant nació en Dieppe, Francia, el 5 de agosto de 1850 y falleció en París el 6 de julio de 1893. Se formó literariamente con el escritor Gustave Flaubert y participó desde joven en su círculo literario. Se especializó en la narrativa breve, llegando a publicar más de doscientos cuentos a lo largo de su vida, de entre los cuales destacan Bola de sebo y El Horla.

Escritor francés, Henry Réne Guy de Maupassant nació en Dieppe, Francia, el 5 de agosto de 1850 y falleció en París el 6 de julio de 1893. Se formó literariamente con el escritor Gustave Flaubert y participó desde joven en su círculo literario. Se especializó en la narrativa breve, llegando a publicar más de doscientos cuentos a lo largo de su vida, de entre los cuales destacan Bola de sebo y El Horla.

Escritor francés, Henry Réne Guy de Maupassant nació en Dieppe, Francia, el 5 de agosto de 1850 y falleció en París el 6 de julio de 1893. Se formó literariamente con el escritor Gustave Flaubert y participó desde joven en su círculo literario. Se especializó en la narrativa breve, llegando a publicar más de doscientos cuentos a lo largo de su vida, de entre los cuales destacan Bola de sebo y El Horla.

Escritor francés, Henry Réne Guy de Maupassant nació en Dieppe, Francia, el 5 de agosto de 1850 y falleció en París el 6 de julio de 1893. Se formó literariamente con el escritor Gustave Flaubert y participó desde joven en su círculo literario. Se especializó en la narrativa breve, llegando a publicar más de doscientos cuentos a lo largo de su vida, de entre los cuales destacan Bola de sebo y El Horla.

An anthology of chilling, classic horror stories, including "The Tale-Tell Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; "The Hand", "Was it a Dream?", and "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells; "Moon-Face" by Jack London; "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.