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Guy De Maupassant
The Diary of a Madman By Guy De Maupassant
Submitted by storybus on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 17:39
He was dead the head of a high tribunal, the upright magistrate whose irreproachable life was a proverb in all the courts of France.The Diary of a Madman: Guy De Maupassant's short storyread the short story
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3 The Dowry
Submitted by storybus on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 23:16
The marriage of Maitre Simon Lebrument with Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier was a surprise to no one. Maitre Lebrument had bought out the practice of Maitre Papillon; naturally, he had to have money to pay for it; and Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier had three hundred thousand francs clear in currency, and in bonds payable to bearer.read the short story
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3 The Devil
Submitted by storybus on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 19:39
The peasant and the doctor stood on opposite sides of the bed, beside the old, dying woman. She was calm and resigned and her mind quite clear as she looked at them and listened to their conversation. She was going to die, and she did not rebel at it, for her time was come, as she was ninety-two.read the short story
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4 The Accursed Bread
Submitted by storybus on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 22:15
Daddy Taille had three daughters: Anna, the eldest, who was scarcely ever mentioned in the family; Rose, the second girl, who was eighteen, and Clara, the youngest, who was a girl of fifteen.read the short story
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3 Discovery
Submitted by storybus on Sat, 05/16/2009 - 16:33
The steamer was crowded with people and the crossing promised to be
good. I was going from Havre to Trouville.read the short story
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2 Belhomme's Beast
Submitted by storybus on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 16:46
The coach for Havre was ready to leave Criquetot, and all the passengers
were waiting for their names to be called out, in the courtyard of the
Commercial Hotel kept by Monsieur Malandain, Jr.read the short story
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5 The Umbrella
Submitted by storybus on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 19:17
Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the
greatest difficulty in making what the servants call their market-penny, and her husband was hardly allowed any pocket money at all. read the short story
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5 THE NECKLACE
Submitted by storybus on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 19:24
She vas one of THOSE pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education.read the short story
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