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If you were asked by someone with greater means than yourself if you would be willing to let them adopt your son, what would you say? This is the dilemma proposed in this story. This story was written in a place and time where the role of children within a family may be different than in the 21st century. Would you hold your child tight, or give them a chance at something you could never give? Narrated by Glenn Hascall

Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant nació en Dieppe, Francia, el 5 de agosto de 1850. Maupassant fue admirador y amigo de Gustave Flaubert al que conoció en 1867. Flaubert lo tomó bajo su protección, le abrió la puerta de algunos periódicos y le presentó a Iván Turgénev y Émile Zola. El escritor viajó a París tras la derrota francesa en la Guerra Franco-Prusiana de 1870 y trabajó como funcionario en varios ministerios, hasta que publicó en 1880 su primera gran obra, Bola de Sebo.

Mathilde Loisel, the lowly born wife of a clerk, has always felt she was meant for greater things. She imagines beautiful gowns, glittering parties, a home of opulence, and a life of comfort. Her only wish is to be flattered and admired, and she is miserable that she will never know that life. But out of the blue, her husband comes home with an invitation to a ball. She buys a new dress but mourns her lack of jewels. But wait!

Mademoiselle Fifi est une nouvelle qui a été publiée pour la première fois dans Gil Blas le 23 mars 1882, puis intégrée à un recueil éponyme.

Some of the most memorable stories are shared in the moments just before bed, around a fire, and rarely does the story contain an explanation for what seems a supernatural encounter. This is just such a story as a man in his 80s shares an encounter that has haunted his mind for more than 50 years. You are welcome to this classic story.

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the daily lives of humans, which often reveal our darker nature. His years of service in the Franco-Prussian War provided him with rich material for his work.

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the day-to-day lives of characters, in which their hidden natures are often revealed. Many of his works also centerd on the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served.

Ces chroniques, écrites pour "Le Gaulois" ou "Gil Blas", constituent de courts essais qui abordent tous les petits faits quotidiens : la politique, les mœurs, l'amour, la littérature. Ces petits tableaux des années 1880-90 représentent ainsi une sorte de journal de bord et un riche matériau dans lequel l'écrivain a sans cesse puisé pour élaborer son œuvre littéraire.

Inside a hidden panel in an antique desk, a man discovers a long braid of hair. And the contemplation of this head of hair drives him mad. Do spirits really come back to inhabit the forms they left in this world?

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is of the best "macabre" tales ever written. It is presented here in its entirety along with eight other incredible tales.

Die DREI-Trilogie der Lauscherlounge als Gesamtausgabe! Drei Gruselgeschichten, drei Märchen und drei Erzählungen über die Liebe, interpretiert von den Sprechern der "Drei ???"...

Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. As a protégé of Flaubert, his short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless resolution. A Piece of String is one of his most famous stories and deals in a very touching way with perception versus reality.

Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. His narratives are characterized by an economy of style and the efficient way in which the various threads are neatly resolved. In "The False Jewels", a man who dotes on his wife is crushed by her unexpected death and then astounded by a revelation about her costume jewelry.

Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. As a protégé of Flaubert, his short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless resolution. In Growing Old two middle-aged men discuss their feelings about aging which leads to one telling a heart rending story about young love and its unexpected aftermath.

Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave.

An invisible alien parasite slowly takes over the penetrating mind of a French nobleman. He slowly loses control over his thoughts, his words, and his deeds. Is it insanity? Or is it the Horla?

L'histoire, inspirée d'un fait divers, se déroule pendant la guerre de 1870 : dix personnes fuyant Rouen envahi par les Prussiens ont pris place dans une diligence.

Guy de Maupassant est un auteur majeur, dont la marque sur la littérature française est indélébile. Ce qu'on connaît moins de lui... c'est son côté lubrique, pourtant très drôle. "À la feuille de rose, maison turque" est une farce grivoise, entre blague érotique et comédie de mœurs. Cette pièce de théâtre se déroule dans une maison close. Un jeune couple de bourgeois provinciaux s'imagine pouvoir passer sa nuit de noces dans un hôtel tranquille. Mal leur en prend ; il s'agit en fait d'un lupanar de la pire espèce.

Guy de Maupassant was an absolute master of the short story genre, delighting in clever plotting, concise style, and efficient storytelling, which he used to produce stunning pieces in a very condensed format. Maupassant specialized in realism, with its sharp criticism of lower human nature and society, and fantastic, although his ventures in the supernatural are often used as an implicit symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds - he was absolutely fascinated with psychiatry, which was nascent at the time.

"En Sicile" est le titre d'un carnet de voyage entrepris par Guy de Maupassant en Sicile. En 1885, ses succès littéraires lui permettent d'acquérir un yacht.