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

As often, the Bondel household quarrel , this time about the supposed adultery people from down the street Cradle and the blindness of the deceived husbands . On thinking of his wife, Bondel has doubts and decides to test ...
Cover of The Unknown
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

On the Pont de la Concorde , Baron Roger Annettes meeting of an unknown Girl that makes him " an effect ... but an effect ... amazing.  
Cover of The Question of Latin
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Piquedent father pawn to Robineau institution. Frustrated and tired of his monotonous existence , he dreams to a softer life. One day, this enthusiast beautiful letters requires that students no longer meet him in Latin , and so, it allows the institution to win every year , hands down , all competitions...
Cover of Letter found on a drowned
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

A sailor found a letter from a young man who drowned in the Seine. In the letter , the young man wrote to a woman. He describes himself as someone who has never loved. He believed love once a young woman. They had done the night boat. He had recited her verses . She was lying in the bottom of the boat to watch the stars . But an unfortunate word of the woman had broken the spell ...  
Cover of A Duel
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The Franco -Prussian War of 1870 ended for France, and Mr. Dubuis . He was National Guard in Paris, but has not seen a single Prussian. Also, it is particularly humiliated by having to suffer the boastful thoughts of a Prussian officer in the train that lead to Switzerland. In the compartment , there...
Cover of The Parrot
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

For ten years , Patin, good sailor, but brutal, flanked by thrashing his wife Desiree . After a storm , we find the remains of his boat , the bodies of his sailors , but no Patin ...  
Cover of The Beggar
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

For forty years , Bell, a cripple , begging in villages. For two days he did not eat anything and it comes befall the corner of a ditch along the master Chiquet court . Seeing spend black hens , he had the urge to kill to eat it right after . He succeeded with his skillful hands, but Chiquet the...
Cover of The Wreck
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Georges Gatin , an old friend of the narrator, tells how he spent part of the night on a wreck with an English family...  
Cover of Madame Parisse
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Looking Antibes at sunset, M. Martini tells the narrator Ms. Parisse story for which an officer was close and keep overnight doors of the city...  
Cover of Madame Baptiste
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The narrator, who is expecting her train, following a funeral procession to care . He learns that the deceased was raped in her youth by a valet , was considered , not without hypocrisy , as an untouchable in his village, until a man 's marriage proposal and brave public opinion to give it a place...
Cover of The Terror
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Mr. Raymon wrote to a friend to tell him that he is getting married. Certainly, it is against his beliefs because he really like all women. Consequently, if he accepts the marriage is loveless . Indeed, he saw Miss Lajolle five times , and the young woman seemed to him honest , but without charm....
Cover of The Three Little Pigs

The Three Little Pigs

Great classic children's books

by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015

There was once upon a time a pig who lived with her three children on a large, comfortable, old-fashioned farmyard. The eldest of the little pigs was called Browny, the second Whitey, and the youngest and best looking Blacky...  
Cover of The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015

Violet Hunter visits Holmes, asking whether she should accept a job asgoverness; a job with very strange conditions. She is enticed by the phenomenal salary which, as originally offered, is £100 a year, later increased to £120 when Miss Hunter balks at having to cut her long hair short...
Cover of Snow-White and Rose-Red
by Grimm Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015

Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage. They are very good little girls, they love each other dearly, and their mother is very fond of them. Rose-Red is outspoken and cheerful and loves to play outside. Snow-White is quiet and shy and...
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