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

Returning home after the Mass, Benoist is the way with Martine and his father. Suddenly , looking at her he said, " Name of a name, it's a beautiful girl all the same as Martine ," he eats no more, he dreams at night , he will spy . Taking his courage in both hands , he will confess his...
Cover of The Wrong House
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Varajou military to vigorous temperament , is on leave with his sister , right-thinking wife of a notable in a small provincial town. Seeking to distract , and believing enter a house where there is the " ladies " welcoming , it penetrates inadvertently in a salon of the good society ...  
Cover of The Effeminates
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The narrator defines man - girl like the plague of this country: it is changing , unpredictable and treacherous . We find much on the boulevards of Paris and the Chamber of Deputies . In friendship, he swears by such for three months and then the milking scoundrel .  
Cover of The Spasm
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

At Châtelguyon , small spa town of Auvergne , in the large breakfast room , the narrator meets a father and his daughter. The father is afflicted with a very singular spasm ...  
Cover of The Impolite Sex
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

Berthe ... X wrote to his aunt Genevieve Z ... from Etretat. She complains about the boorishness , coarseness and rudeness of men. Back from hunting , sea baths , on the train , to the hotel, they misbehave and this hampered its sensitivity. Yesterday, for example , on the beach , she had to move to no longer hear the gritty stories told two men ...  
Cover of A Wedding Gift
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Jacques Bourdillère , a confirmed bachelor , fell under the spell of a girl seeing her swim at the sea. He falls in love very quickly , made ​​his marriage proposal , but parents are reluctant because of multiple bonds that it ready and an old mistress of record .  
Cover of Timbuctoo
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The meeting on the Parisian boulevards between a negro and an officer is an opportunity for the latter to tell how the two men were known during the Franco -Prussian War of 1870 and tell two stories about this extraordinary man . He was a lieutenant and commanded a besieged citadel, a disparate band...
Cover of A Queer Night in Paris
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

M. Saval , provincial notary ( seen as an artist for Vernon inhabitants) just spend an evening in Paris. Through a series of circumstances , it is embroiled in a party given by a famous painter. He first played the role of stooge , and involuntary and ridiculous attraction of the evening. He wakes up in the morning with a hangover , stripped of his clothes and all his affairs ...  
Cover of Forgiveness
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Berthe Savignol was raised by his parents in the dark about things in life . At eighteen, the naive young married Baron Georges , a handsome boy who does business on the stock exchange . It therefore leaves his country and goes to Paris where she frequents little world , content to stay in his street....
Cover of The Prisoners
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

During the Franco -Prussian War of 1870, near Rethel, Berthine , daughter of Nicolas Pichon ranger , captured six Germans...  
Cover of That Pig of a Morin
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015

This new tells the story of Morin Mercier in La Rochelle, returning from Paris where he spent fifteen days. At the station , he saw a young girl, Henriette Bonnel , falls under her charm and follows the train. Thinking she made ​​advances to him , he tries to kiss her. Frightened , the girl alert employees. Morin is stopped...
Cover of In the Spring
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

The narrator recounts the impressions he feels the arrival of spring , on the deck of a boat traveling on the Seine , he smiled at a girl . When he is about to approach a man stops his gesture and asked him to " beware of love" and tell him what happened to him last spring.  
Cover of On the River
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

It is the story of a singular adventure reached a boater of the Seine on his way home, after dining with a friend. He stops to smoke a pipe when trembles because of a strange movement in his sailboat that makes the wobble as the middle of a storm. He decides to pull his anchor and go, but...
Cover of The Rondoli Sisters
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

ouvenet Pierre offers his friend Paul to be his companion for a short stay in Italy. Paul hesitated a little, but finally agreed when Pierre evokes the beauty of young Italian women. In the train that takes them to Genoa, an unknown installs in the car the two men who are quick to get to know. Not...
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