Original Short Stories

by Guy de Maupassant

Translated by Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Mme. Quesada and Others

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THE ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES in 13 VOLUMES (180 Stories)

The Complete Maupassant Original Short Stories [in one large text file (3.5mb)]

Volume I.

• Guy De Maupassant: A Study (by Pol. Neveux) -- Boule De Suife -- 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

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