Guy de Maupassant

This handsome anthology brings together 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written, presented in a jacketed hardback with beautifully gothic endpaper illustrations. Featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts, these tales will terrify and entertain in equal measure. Whether the apparitions are discovered by intrepid adventurers, solemn priests or mild-mannered academics, the haunted must reconsider their most basic assumptions and work out how best to respond to these supernatural assaults. Tales include: - A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant- The Red Room by H. G. Wells- The Signalman by Charles Dickens - The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson - The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson- The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral by M. R. James- Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu These uncanny tales will haunt you long after the book is closed... ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Retro Classics are beautiful hardcover collections which bring together the best short stories from across the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. With striking retro cover designs and illustrated endpapers by Tithi Luadthong, these editions make wonderful collectibles for your home library.

Chaque jour de d cembre, d couvrez avec ce calendrier de l'avent f erique un merveilleux conte de No l crits par les plus grands conteurs (Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Guy de Maupassant, Camille Lemonnier, Jos phine Marchand...), ces 24 histoires traditionnelles vous feront patienter jusqu'au jour J. Ce recueil se termine par l'un des plus beaux contes de No l de Charles Dickens, l'histoire de Scrooge et des trois esprits. Sommaire: 1er D cembre: Nuit de No l de Guy de Maupassant 2 d cembre: Le Bonhomme de neige de Hans Christian Andersen3 d cembre: L'arbre de No l de Charles Dickens 4 d cembre: Les sabots du petit Wolff de Fran ois Copp e 5 d cembre: No l de Jos phine Marchand 6 d cembre: Le No l du Petit Joueur de Violon de Camille Lemonnier 7 d cembre: Une semaine du Petit Elfe Ferme-L'oeil de Hans Christian Andersen8 d cembre Le Petit No l de Quatre Sans-Culottes de G. Lenotre 9 d cembre: Les Trois Messes Basses d'Alphonse Daudet10 d cembre: Le Sapin de Hans Christian Andersen11 d cembre: No l au Pays de Jos phine Marchand 12 d cembre: Conte de No l de Guy de Maupassant 13 d cembre: L'arbre De No l De Monsieur D'auvrigny de G. Lenotre 14 d cembre: Le R ve d'Antoinette de Jos phine Marchand 15 d cembre: Le No l de Caroline de Louis Dantin 16 d cembre: Le pudding de No l de Charles Quinel 17 d cembre: Hier et Demain de Jos phine Marchand 18 d cembre: Rikiki - Tradition Orale 19 d cembre: Les Pierres de Plouhinec de Charles mile Souvestre 20 d cembre: Le Jour de l'An de Jos phine Marchand 21 d cembre: Casse-Noisette d'Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann22 D cembre: La Petite Fille et Les Allumettes de Hans Christian Andersen23 D cembre: La Nuit avant No l de Cl ment Clarke Moore 24 D cembre - Contes de No l de Charles Dickens

The odd Number - Thirteen Tales is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard HowardOlivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of 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. Olivier's lover is Anne, the Countess de Guilleroy, the wife of a busy politician. Their relationship is long-standing, close, almost conjugal. The countess's daughter is Annette, and she is the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth. Having finished her schooling, Annette is returning to Paris. Her parents have put together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be--until the painter and countess are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death. . . . In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann's Way. Richard Howard's new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction.

Svartsjuka, tjugotalets Paris, krossade hjärtan och dekadent kärlek - här hittar du helt andra historier av författarna bakom klassiska franska verk som Det andra könet, Madame Bovary och På spaning efter den tid som flytt. Asken innehåller fyra böcker: Guy de Maupassant - Pauls flicka Gustave Flaubert - Ett enkelt hjärta Marcel Proust - Madame de Breyves melankoliska sommarSimone de Beauvoir - Marcelle"Sällan har den hopplösa kärleken och svartsjukans tvärmörker skildrats bättre. Tål att läsas gång på gång" Svenska Dagbladet om Guy de Maupssants Pauls flicka"Novellen är ett mästerstycke"Svenska Dagbladet om Simone de Beauvoir MarcelleNovellix ger ut stora läsupplevelser i litet format! En novell per bok, och alltid med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar.

Accompanying the text are essays, letters and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant’s writing, and critical assessments from his time to our own, along with a chronology and bibliography.

Yvette, l'une des oeuvres les plus repr sentatives de Guy de Maupassant publi e en 1884, est l'histoire d'une ducation sentimentale et sociale, la route menant la jeune Yvette de prendre conscience du monde autour de tergiversation. Avec un style raffin , loin de tout appel m lodramatique, Maupassant d crit la parodie de la bonne soci t dans laquelle Yvette vit avec sa m re, une courtisane de fortune douteuse, des aventuriers et des libertins. Yvette est un jeune passionn et romanesque, capable de ramener la situation l'extr me, m me pour les entreprises qui sont habitu s tous les exc s: ses changements de personnalit , un jour est innocent et r veur, et d'autres tentant et humiliant. Yvette drame se plaint de distinguer le vrai du faux et aspirer tre elle-m me et chapper au sort qui est r serv dans le monde d'or de la prostitution. Jusqu' contraints d'accepter que ni elle ni la r alit ne sont ce que je pensais errant. Avec leur expertise pour construire une histoire, Maupassant nous apporte la joie de vivre aux illusions perdues, et avec des touches pr cises recr e une poque le statut des femmes condamn s vivre renoncer leurs id aux et leur propre identit .

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