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Cover of The Cripple
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

In the car, which just moved Henry Bonclair , climbs a cripple both legs amputated . His face does not seem strange to him ...  
Cover of The Kiss
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

The old aunt Colette wrote a long letter to his niece . She gives her advice to that woman that has just been abandoned by her husband . His main point lies in the fact that his niece kisses too . Women must use charm, caress and use diplomacy to rule. Their power comes from the kiss to be a charming preface and it should not be dull .  
Cover of The Farmer's Wife
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The narrator goes to the opening of hunting with Baron René du Treilles his farm in Marinville . After a good dinner campaign , Baron tells him the story of his tenant , master Lebrument ...  
Cover of The Blind Man
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

The narrator tells the miserable life of a blind peasant's son . Both his parents had lived , he lived almost correctly, but when they die , collected by his sister , he became the scapegoat of the family. His brother , who has taken his share of the inheritance , criticized his uselessness .  
Cover of Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Menton. A large German consumptive dying slowly. The narrator binds to know him , and the patient immediately shows him a book of his master, Schopenhauer, annotated by the author . The narrator considers Schopenhauer as "the greatest Reaver dreams." Moreover, a French politician says the...
Cover of The Christening
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

In a country house, near Pont l'Abbé, saw an old naval doctor. The Kérandec father, his gardener, just ask him to be godfather to his son. And on January 2 , are the way to the church ...  
Cover of The Mustache
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Jeanne seeing her husband without a mustache , understands that " this small bristles on the lip is helpful to relations between spouses" and compare the different kinds of existing mustaches. Of course, she prefers the French mustache . It reminds him also a cruel memory . During the Franco...
Cover of A New Year's Gift
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

In this New Year's night , Jacques Randal unexpectedly receives his mistress Irene ...  
Cover of Our Letters
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Guest Muret with his friends Artus , the narrator is housed in Aunt Rose 's room. Insomniac , he gets up at night to write letters and discovered in the secret drawer of a secretary ...  
Cover of The Story of a Farm Girl
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Rose is a girl who works at the farm of Mr. Vallin . The stifling atmosphere of spring brings him to sit on a bale of straw . She meets Jacques , a farm boy , and has a relationship with him. But soon , Rose becomes pregnant. Jacques promises to marry her , but when she reminds him of his promise, he fled ...  
Cover of The Legion of Honor
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Since childhood, Mr. Sacrament is obsessed with the desire to have the Legion of Honour . Married and living in Paris bourgeois , its occupation of walks where he counts the number of officers and knights of the Legion of Honour and eight officers on September 10 knights to go , how many t find he return ?  
Cover of Bertha
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

On the hill of Châtelguyon , Dr. Bonnet tells the misfortunes of Bertha, a simple-minded, he had tried unsuccessfully to awaken thought.  
Cover of Useless Beauty
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

After eleven years of marriage and seven children, Tidal of the countess, still in the fullness of its beauty , told her husband that one of the kids is not it ...  
Cover of Friend Patience
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Gontran Lardois remembers his old friends with a college friend . When they arrive at Robert Patience, he says he met in Limoges five years ago, the man invited him to breakfast with him . Gontran is a little heavy decorated with paintings of naked women everywhere: it is a brothel. Patience and...
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