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Original Short Stories - Volume 9
Guy de Maupassant
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The regiment that he commanded was, besides, a picked regiment celebrated all through the province, and the company of grenadiers of Gisors was called on to attend all important ceremonies for a distance of fifteen to twenty leagues. The story goes that Louis Philippe, while reviewing the militia of Eure, stopped in astonishment before the company from Gisors, exclaiming:
"Oh, who are those splendid grenadiers?"
"The grenadiers of Gisors," replied the general.
"I might have known it," murmured the king.
So Commandant . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I read them when I stays at the high school. By preparing the competitive examination for begining secialist MD, I decided to read all books of Maupassant. I hesitated with Proust but I wanted short stories. In fact it was rather fast. I read all the books in a few days, neglecting even my exams.
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I read this book about ten years ago and I was reminded that I had it this morning when I was looking at another Goodreader's "shelves" as is my want.
Looking briefly through this selection of thirty short stories, the most famous of which was the "Boule de Suif", or "suet dumpling", I vividly recall
قصص من أدب الرعب النفسي، تمحورت حول حالة الخوف الهَوَسَي من شيءٍ ما؛ مجهولٍ ما.
موباسان يرى أن الخوف ينشأ فقط مما لا نفهمه ومما لا يمكن معرفته وإدراك ماهيته، أما ما يصيبنا نتيجة الخطر الواضح فلا يعتبر خوفاً، وحول هذه الرؤية دارت جميع قصصه.
أن تبقى سجين فكرة، أو كيان، أو شعور، أو حالة .. غير بيّنة المع
Insightful, humane, modern --these are some of the words
that strike after reading Maupassant's stories and novels.
Never mind the puritanical comments on this site.
Maupassant touches deep chords of feeling -- the chords
of a full symphony. His characters refuse to be defeated inside their hearts; his
Master storyteller Guy De Maupassant covered the full range in his short fiction, by turns as realist as Balzac, as romantic as Dumas, as naturalist as Zola, as decadent as Lorrain or as Gothic as Poe. What a powerful, versatile imagination. This collection of short stories includes three well-known