Guy de Maupassant
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Opulence is sometimes deceiving. Madame Mathilde Loisel is displeased, she cannot go to a fancy party because she doesn't have anything to wear. Her husband tries to help her and gives her money to buy a new dress. She insists she also needs jewels so she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. After the party, Mathilde realizes that she lost the stunning necklace.
Author
Publisher
Ægypan Press, [200-?]
Pub. Date
200u
Language
English
Description
A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal...
4) Like death
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls." And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Anne, the comtesse de Guilleroy, is a youthful forty,...
9) The necklace
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife enter into a life of hardship in order to repay the debt incurred in replacing a borrowed diamond necklace only to learn, ten years later, the irony of their situation. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.
15) Alien hearts
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Alien Hearts "was the last novel that Guy de Maupassant completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at forty-three. It is the most original and surprising of his novels and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. "Alien Hearts "is the story of lovers bound by bitterness as much as by passion. Maupassant's hero falls for a woman of the world, a glacially dazzling beauty...