Complete Maupassant Original Short Stories | Page 4

STORIES Translated
by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A.
MME. QUESADA and Others

Also available in 13 individual Gutenberg Project etext files:
Short Stories V13, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#14][gm13v11.txt]3089
Short Stories V12, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#13][gm12v11.txt]3088
Short Stories V11, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#12][gm11v11.txt]3087
Short Stories V10, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#11][gm10v11.txt]3086
Short Stories V9, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#10][gm09v11.txt]3085
Short Stories V8, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#9] [gm08v11.txt]3084
Short Stories V7, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#8] [gm07v11.txt]3083
Short Stories V6, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#7] [gm06v11.txt]3082
Short Stories V5, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#6] [gm05v11.txt]3081
Short Stories V4, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#5] [gm04v11.txt]3080

Short Stories V3, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#4] [gm03v11.txt]3079
Short Stories V2, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#3] [gm02v11.txt]3078
Short Stories V1, by Guy de Maupassant [GM#2] [gm01v11.txt]3077

CONTENTS OF THE 13 VOLUMES (180 Stories)
VOLUME I.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT--A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX
BOULE DE SUIF TWO FRIENDS THE LANCER'S WIFE THE
PRISONERS TWO LITTLE SOLDIERS FATHER MILON A COUP
D'ETAT LIEUTENANT LARE'S MARRIAGE THE HORRIBLE
MADAME PARISSE MADEMOISELLE FIFI A DUEL

VOLUME II.
THE COLONEL'S IDEAS MOTHER SAUVAGE EPIPHANY THE
MUSTACHE MADAME BAPTISTE THE QUESTION OF LATIN A
MEETING THE BLIND MAN INDISCRETION A FAMILY AFFAIR
BESIDE SCHOPENHAUER'S CORPSE

VOLUME III.
MISS HARRIET LITTLE LOUISE ROQUE THE DONKEY
MOIRON THE DISPENSER OF HOLY WATER THE PARRICIDE
BERTHA THE PATRON THE DOOR A SALE THE IMPOLITE SEX
A WEDDING GIFT THE RELIC

VOLUME IV.
THE MORIBUND THE GAMEKEEPER THE STORY OF A FARM
GIRL THE WRECK THEODULE SABOT'S CONFESSION THE

WRONG HOUSE THE DIAMOND NECKLACE THE MARQUIS
DE FUMEROL THE TRIP OF THE HORLA FAREWELL THE
WOLF THE INN

VOLUME V.
MONSIEUR PARENT QUEEN HORTENSE TIMBUCTOO
TOMBSTONES MADEMOISELLE PEARL THE THIEF CLAIR DE
LUNE WAITER, A "BOCK" AFTER FORGIVENESS IN THE
SPRING A QUEER NIGHT IN PARIS

VOLUME VI.
THAT COSTLY RIDE USELESS BEAUTY THE FATHER MY
UNCLE SOSTHENES THE BARONESS MOTHER AND SON THE
HAND A TRESS OF HAIR ON THE RIVER THE CRIPPLE A
STROLL ALEXANDRE THE LOG JULIE ROMAINE THE
RONDOLI SISTERS

VOLUME VII.
THE FALSE GEMS FASCINATION YVETTE SAMORIS A
VENDETTA MY TWENTY-FIVE DAYS "THE TERROR" LEGEND
OF MONT ST. MICHEL A NEW YEAR'S GIFT FRIEND
PATIENCE ABANDONED THE MAISON TELLIER DENIS MY
WIFE THE UNKNOWN THE APPARITION

VOLUME VIII.
CLOCHETTE THE KISS THE LEGION OF HONOR THE TEST
FOUND ON A DROWNED MAN THE ORPHAN THE BEGGAR
THE RABBIT HIS AVENGER MY UNCLE JULES THE MODEL A
VAGABOND THE FISHING HOLE THE SPASM IN THE WOOD

MARTINE ALL OVER THE PARROT A PIECE OF STRING

VOLUME IX.
TOINE MADAME HUSSON'S ROSIER THE ADOPTED SON A
COWARD OLD MONGILET MOONLIGHT THE FIRST
SNOWFALL SUNDAYS OF A BOURGEOIS A RECOLLECTION
OUR LETTERS THE LOVE OF LONG AGO FRIEND JOSEPH THE
EFFEMINATES OLD AMABLE

VOLUME X.
THE CHRISTENING THE FARMER'S WIFE THE DEVIL THE
SNIPE THE WILL WALTER SCHNAFF'S ADVENTURE AT SEA
MINUET THE SON THAT PIG OF A MORIN SAINT ANTHONY
LASTING LOVE PIERROT A NORMANDY JOKE FATHER
MATTHEW

VOLUME XI.
THE UMBRELLA BELHOMME'S BEAST DISCOVERY THE
ACCURSED BREAD THE DOWRY THE DIARY OF A MAD MAN
THE MASK THE PENGUINS ROCK A FAMILY SUICIDES AN
ARTIFICE DREAMS SIMON'S PAPA

VOLUME XII.
THE CHILD A COUNTRY EXCURSION ROSE ROSALIE
PRUDENT REGRET A SISTER'S CONFESSION COCO A DEAD
WOMAN'S SECRET A HUMBLE DRAMA MADEMOISELLE
COCOTTE THE CORSICAN BANDIT THE GRAVE

VOLUME XIII.
OLD JUDAS THE LITTLE CASK BOITELLE A WIDOW THE
ENGLISHMEN OF ETRETAT MAGNETISM A FATHERS
CONFESSION A MOTHER OF MONSTERS AN
UNCOMFORTABLE BED A PORTRAIT THE DRUNKARD THE
WARDROBE THE MOUNTAIN POOL A CREMATION MISTI
MADAME HERMET THE MAGIC COUCH

GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES
VOLUME I.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT--A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX BOULE
DE SUIF TWO FRIENDS THE LANCER'S WIFE THE PRISONERS
TWO LITTLE SOLDIERS FATHER MILON A COUP D'ETAT
LIEUTENANT LARE'S MARRIAGE THE HORRIBLE MADAME
PARISSE MADEMOISELLE FIFI A DUEL

GUY DE MAUPASSANT A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX
"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
solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which,
for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the
fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels,
only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . .
In the month of April, 1880, an article appeared in the "Le Gaulois"
announcing the publication of the Soirees de Medan. It was signed by a
name as yet unknown: Guy de Maupassant. After a juvenile diatribe
against romanticism and a passionate attack on languorous literature,