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This novel by Guy de Maupassant was published in serial form in Paris in February and March 1883. It was published in volume the same year. It is composed of 14 chapters and relates the dreams and disillusions of Jeanne, the daughter of a baron who for a long time imagined her life only through "the idealizing prism of her dreams".

Guy Davenport’s cerebral and innovative stories intricately assemble centuries’ worth of images and ideas Guy Davenport’s stories seamlessly illuminate his vast knowledge of theology, philosophy, botany, and art, in his singular style of finding harmony in the juxtaposition of different...

Contes du jour et de la nuit Guy de Maupassant, écrivain français (1850-1893) C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1885 Ce livre numérique présente les "Contes du jour et de la nuit", de Guy de Maupassant, édité en texte intégral. Une table...

Growing up in the 1970s, our young hero contends with parents who think he's weird, teachers who don't appreciate his challenging intellect, and classmates who resent his existential Show & Tell presentations. To make matters worse, he has strange feelings for his best friend. Nothing in his life...

Da Vinci’s Bicycle, Guy Davenport’s second collection of stories, was first published in 1979, and contains some of his most important fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against...

Guy Davenport links the essential ideas of our cultural landscape in stories that nod to the philosophers, artists, and writers who came before him Reality, fiction, history, and art all converge in this collection as Guy Davenport explores complex ideas within narratives that are full of emotional...

In the final book of this series, author Guy Kettelhack offers moving and triumphant stories of individuals in their third year of sobriety. Through these stories, Kettelhack brings alive the ongoing process of building self-esteem and explores what this process means at this point in recovery--"turning...

The Harvard Classics - Shelf of Fiction represents a specific selection of the greatest novels, novellas and short stories of seven national literatures, namely: English, American, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Scandinavian. Table of Contents: Vols. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones by Henry...

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...

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer whos considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's best at that. A protégé of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are economical and efficient, with not a single word...

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant; (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Guy De Maupassant wrote some of the most twisted and freaky short stories of his day. This is Volume 7 of 13, containing 15 of his best stories. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

If you think you have heard it all... You haven't. There are p!aces and events you have never heard about... Until now! You will not see them on cable TV or on the news. The truth is out there, but if it involves supernatural or paranormal phenomenon that science cannot explain away, there is a real...

In 1917, shortly after the United States’ declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army’s ambulance service. Like other young ambulance drivers—Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Cowley—Bowerman longed to “see the show.” He was glad to learn that...

A Butterfly on the Wheel Guy Thorne, prolific English journalist and novelist (1876-1923) This ebook presents «A Butterfly on the Wheel», from Guy Thorne. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- PREFACE -03- A BUTTERFLY ON THE WHEEL -04- THE LAST CHAPTER