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.

A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal...

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...

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short-story genre, producing more than three hundred during his lifetime. These concise stories contain twists and shocking turns, and range from the fantastic and supernatural, with characters descending into madness and their most base desires, to the challenges of marriage and parenthood, and to the broader philosophical ruminations on the nature of regret and what it means to love. The twenty-eight stories...

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.

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...

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...

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...

I committed a crime, it is true, a mad crime, but are not insane jealousy, passionate love, betrayed and lost, and the terrible pain I endure, enough to make anyone commit a crime without actually being a criminal? Guy de Maupassant A lover's most unlikely jealousy, a mother's patient wait for revenge, a young actress driven to destruction by a cruel husband, a story of jilted love and murder in a London lodging house, and a confrontation that brings...

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,...