Guy de Maupassant - Libros y biografía

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...

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...

Edition enrichie (Préface, notes, commentaires sur l'oeuvre, chronologie et bibliographie)« Fermé pour cause de première communion » : un tel avis, sur la porte d'une maison close, n'est pas chose courante,...

"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid...

Guy de Maupassant, discepolo ideale di Flaubert, scrisse più di 300 tra racconti e novelle brevi, nella stragrande maggioranza dei casi tutti nel corso degli anni '80 del secolo; tranne pochissime eccezioni...

Uma diligência atravessa a Normandia ocupada pelas vitoriosas tropas prussianas, no século xix. Na carruagem segue uma jovem, Élisabeth Rousset, conhecida por Bola de Sebo, e mais nove pessoas: um casal...

Pendant l'hiver, 1870-71, durant la guerre franco-prussienne, la ville de Rouen (Normandie) est envahie par les Prussiens. Pour fuir l'occupation, dix personnes prennent la diligence de Dieppe : un couple...

Pierre e Jean è il quarto romanzo dello scrittore francese Guy de Maupassant, scritto in soli tre mesi a La Guillette, la casa dell'autore in Normandia, apparve su La Nouvelle Revue in tre puntate. Pierre...

M. Roland, ancien bijoutier parisien, a déménagé dès qu'il a pu avec sa femme au Havre, par amour inconditionnel de la mer. Ils ont deux fils, Pierre et Jean. Après leurs études à Paris, où Pierre, l'aîné,...

Bel Ami von Guy de Maupassant Bel-Ami ist ein Roman von Guy de Maupassant, der 1885 erschienen ist. Er beschreibt den beruflichen und gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg des ehemaligen Unteroffiziers Georges...