Guy De Maupassant: 1041 books

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

The book titled Simon’s Papa and other Stories comprises various interesting stories related to human life on pragmatic, imaginative thought process. Most of the stories give the lesson to live a placid life. Simon’s Papa is one of the inspiring stories. Let’s read, relish and acknowledge....

Houlbrèque Césaire , the son of deaf old Amable Houlbrèque , wanted to marry , despite his father, Heavenly Lévesque, who had a child of Victor Lecoq , simple valet employee while in the farm of his parents and set out for this fact ...  

This is the war of 1870. While the Prussian staff stood in the farmhouse of Father Milon , Uhlans regularly disappear in the evening or during the night and are found dead the next day in the morning. One morning , we notice that the father wears a scar Milon face. The Prussian officers make the...

This entire stretch of country was amazing; it was characterized by a grandeur that was almost religious, and yet it had an air of sinister desolation.

Walter Schnaffs is a Prussian soldier unfortunate since its entry into France . It is pacifist , weapons horror , does not like walking and regrets above all his wife and their four children. So when he was sent on patrol in Normandy and the troop is attacked by snipers , he jumps into a hole to...

One couple had a son later on named John, it disappears at the age of five. They sell everything and travel the roads in search of their only son. Fifteen years later , still looking for him , they beg to survive. We advise them to go to Paris , in a church, the old seems to see in a young man ,...

Diary of a spa guest came spend twenty -five days from Chatelguyon to treat his liver , his stomach and lose a little weight . The meeting of two beautiful women pleasurable, comfortable...  

Le père Mathieu, que les Normands surnomment aussi « La Boisson », est un ancien sergent-major revenu dans son village sur ses vieux jours. Il a obtenu « grâce à des protections multiples et à des habiletés invraisemblables »...

The first bathers, the early risers, who had already been at the water, were walking slowly, in pairs or alone, under the huge trees along the stream which rushes down the gorges of Enval. Others arrived from the village, and entered the establishment in a hurried fashion. It was a spacious building,...