Research Catalog

Title

Collected stories of Guy de Maupassant.

Author

Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893

Publication

New York : Avenel Books : Distributed by Crown Publishers, c1985.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xvi, 1003 p.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Short stories. English

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 > Translations into English
• France > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Translations

Note

• Reprint. Originally published: The complete short stories of Guy de Maupassant. New York : Walter Black, Inc., 1903?
• "Ten volumes in one."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Ball-of-fat -- The diamond necklace -- A piece of string -- The story of a farm-girl -- In the moonlight -- Mme. Tellier's excursion -- Love -- Mme. Fifi -- Monsieur Parent -- Useless beauty -- An affair of state -- Babette -- A cock crowed -- Lilie Lala -- A vagabond -- The mountebanks -- Ugly -- The debt -- A Normandy joke -- The father -- The artist -- False alarm -- That pig of a morin -- Miss Harriet -- The hole -- The inn -- A family -- Bellflower -- In the wood -- The Marquis de Fumerol -- Saved -- The signal -- The devil -- The Venus of Braniza -- The rabbit -- La morillonne -- Epiphany -- Simon's papa -- Waiter, a bock! -- The sequel to a divorce -- The clown -- The mad woman -- Mademoiselle -- A bad error -- The port -- Chali -- Jeroboam -- Virtue in the ballet -- The double pins -- How he got the legion of honor -- A crisis -- Graveyard sirens -- Growing old -- A French enoch arden -- Julie Romain -- An unreasonable woman -- Rosalie Prudent -- Hippolyte's claim --^
• Benoist -- Fecundity -- A way to wealth -- Am I insane? -- Forbidden fruit -- The charm dispelled -- Madame Parisse -- Making a convent -- A little walk -- A wife's confession -- A dead woman's secret -- Love's awakening -- Bed No. 29 -- Marroca -- A philosopher -- A mistake -- Florentine -- Consideration -- Woman's wiles -- Moonlight -- Doubtful happiness -- Humiliation -- The wedding night -- The noncommissioned officer -- In the court room -- A peculiar case -- A practical joke -- A strange fancy -- After death -- On cats -- Room no. eleven -- One phase of love -- Good reasons -- A fair exchange -- The tobacco shop -- A poor girl -- The substitute -- A passion -- Caught -- The orderly -- Joseph -- Regret -- The deaf-mute -- Magnetism -- In various roles -- The false gems -- Countess Satan -- A useful house -- The colonel's ideas -- Two little soldiers -- Ghosts -- Was it a dream? -- The new sensation -- Virtue! -- The thief -- The diary of a madman -- On perfumes -- The will --^
• In his sweetheart's livery -- An unfortunate likeness -- A night in Whitechapel -- Lost -- A country excursion -- The relics -- A rupture -- Margot's tapers -- The accent -- Profitable business -- Bertha -- The last step -- A mesalliance -- An honest deal -- The log -- Delila -- The ill-omened groom -- The odalisque of Senichou -- Bric-a-brac -- The artist's wife -- In the spring -- The real one and the other -- The carter's wench -- The rendezvous -- Solitude -- The man with the blue eyes -- An artifice -- The specter -- The relic -- The marquis -- A deer park in the provinces -- An adventure -- The bed -- Under the yoke -- A fashionable woman -- Words of love -- The upstart -- Happiness -- Christmas Eve -- The awakening -- The white lady -- Madame Baptiste -- Revenge -- An old maid -- Complication -- Forgiveness -- The white wolf -- Toine -- An enthusiast -- The traveler's story -- A jolly fellow -- A lively friend -- The blind man -- The impolite sex -- The Corsican bandit --^
• The duel -- The love of long ago -- The farmer's wife -- Beside a dead man -- A queer night in Paris -- A duel -- The umbrella -- The question of Latin -- Mother and son!!! -- He? -- The avenger -- The conservatory -- Letter found on a corpse -- The little cask -- Poor Andrew -- A fishing excursion -- After -- The spasm -- A meeting -- A New Year's gift -- My Uncle Sosthenes -- All over -- My landlady -- The horrible -- The first snowfall -- The wooden shoes -- Boitelle -- Selfishness -- The watchdog -- The dancers -- Christening -- A costly outing -- The man with the dogs -- A king's son -- Mohammed Fripouli -- "Bell" -- The victim -- The Englishman -- Sentiment -- Francis -- The assassin -- Semillante -- On the river -- Suicides -- A miracle -- The accursed bread -- My twenty-five days -- A lucky burglar -- An odd feast -- Sympathy -- A traveler's tale -- Little Louise Roque.

ISBN

0517457512 :

LCCN

^^^84020316^

OCLC

• 11133624
• SCSB-10647349

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library