Guy de Maupassant - Libros y biografía

Can children be even crueller than adults?Left without a father, Simon is being tortured by his peеrs to the point when he attempts a suicide. Luckily enough, the local blacksmith, Phillip Remy, takes...

A Norman bar keeper makes his village inn famous with his special drink: the best Cognac in France... Until his life changes in an instance, when he becomes paralysed and his wife uses his body for laying...

'A Mother of Monsters' is a dark and disturbing story. The narrator is visiting his friend, and they walk along the seafront. As their conversation continues, the friend tells him of the eponymous mother,...

Dark secrets are revealed when two aristocratic old friends embark on a journey through their memories in Guy de Maupassant's "The Son." At 25, one of the men committed a crime on a walking tour in Brittany,...

Money gets you everywhere, it can even buy happiness - if you have enough. It is a fragile thing, though, and you must be careful what you do with it. When Mademoiselle Source, a wealthy woman who has...

When Jeanne's husband shaves off his mustache, she sees it as a vile, rebellious act committed specifically to upset her, and becomes impatient to embark on a journey of praising its virtues. Eroticism...

A drunkard and a brute, Patin's marriage to Désireé is an unhappy one. He leaves to go fishing one night during a terrible storm, and never returns. Désireé is convinced he has somehow managed to cheat...

Pour obtenir les meilleures nouvelles réalistes, il faut :Un contexte historique réel : la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870, ou plutôt la débâcle française et l’occupation prussienne.Des personnages typiques,...

Chez le baron des Ravots, existait une coutume appelée le « conte de la Bécasse ». Chaque convive, à la fin du banquet de chasse, après avoir dégusté une bécasse, racontait une histoire… Histoires tendres...

Mathilde Loisel n’est pas pauvre, mais elle n’est pas riche non plus. Elle qui ne rêve que de luxe et du grand monde, comment peut-elle répondre à l’invitation d’un ministre sans toilette digne de ce...

L'OEUVRE INTEGRALE ANNOTEE :  Hiver 1870, Rouen est occupée par l’armée allemande. La fuite s’organise et dix personnes se trouvent réunies dans une diligence à destination de Dieppe. Toute la société...

A thought-provoking and humorous real-life comedy, "That Pig of a Morin" shows us how some quite ordinary urges can turn devastating for the male character Morin. An innocent kiss sends the protagonist's...

"In the Wood" is a romantic and humorous story about two middle-aged lovers who decide to revisit the spot of their first acquaintance in order to rekindle their love life. Little do they know that a...

Retired merchant Monsieur Bondel has settled in the quiet town of Saint-Germain together with his wife, where he looks forward to a peaceful retirement together. The move is not quite the success he hopes...

"Something that he was going to say was cut short in his throat, and he sat there with his mouth half open and a terrible look in his eyes."A group of vulgar and disrespectful Prussian soldiers have seized...

Set during the hunting season, the Chateau Baneville is peopled with guests waiting for the weather to improve.After half-heartedly playing board games, they tell stories. None is so shocking as the one...

Money doesn't buy happiness. But can it buy love?Two families live in the Norman countryside. Neither of them have any money. Both of them are happy, healthy, and fulfilled. A wealthy couple walks past...

Colone Laporte has an opinion about everything. Colonel Laporte is also right about everything. Or so he thinks. During a conversation with a friend, he is preaching his opinion about French people. He...

With all the wistful romance of 'The Remains of the Day,' (starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson), 'Alexandre' tells the story of a servant and his mistress, Madame Marambelle. Now wheelchair-bound,...

A successful businessman who wouldn't dream of accepting 'no' as an answer, Jules Chicot has his heart set on buying his neighbour's farm. He will stop at nothing. This short story follows his quest to...

It's 1870 and the Siege of Paris is in full swing, where the French-Prussian war has brought daily life to a halt. Wearied, starving, and strung out on absinthe, two men meet by chance at their favourite...

Matilda cannot wait for her husband to be away so she can invite Captain Sommerive into her house and heart. But as their love affair grows more passionate, Matilda begins to see that the secret could...

"The Thief" tells the tragic story of a soldier enamoured with life and with a girl as disquieting and wayward as she is beautiful. Through masterful storytelling within a story, Guy de Maupassant portrays...

It is often the most humble men that are the most dangerous.Central Corsica is dangerous. There is no question about that. Despite its beautiful scenery, the area is rife with bandits, mongrels, and crime....

Being Maupassant's second-published novel, "Bel Ami" follows the vile and corrupt rags-to-riches rise to power of Georges Duroy, a young man of endless opportunities, but easily corrupted by the shining...

Edition enrichie (Introduction, commentaires et notes)  Après Notre cœur (1890), Maupassant sombre dans la folie qui l'emportera trois ans plus tard. Or ce dernier roman publié, loin de marquer le crépuscule...

Edition enrichie (préface, notes, commentaire, documents, biographie, chronologie)Publié en 1884, Yvette, l'une des œuvres les plus justement célèbres de Maupassant, nous conte une éducation sentimentale...

Édition enrichie (Préface, notes et bibliographie)Des employés de ministère étriqués, une jeunesse bruyante que distrait le canotage sur la Seine, des petits boutiquiers qui ne rêvent que pêche à la ligne,...

Édition enrichie (Introduction, notes, chronologie et bibliographie)" C'était le temps de la vie parisienne ", et son âge d'or. A des quotidiens comme Le Gaulois, lu par la meilleure société, Le Figaro,...

Edition enrichie (Introduction, chronologie et notes)" Car l'amour est fort comme la Mort, la passion inflexible comme le Schéol.Maupassant ne lisait pas comme nous le Cantique des Cantiques. Pour lui...