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Original Short Stories - Volume 3

Guy de Maupassant

Book Overview: 

Collection of Short Stories

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The weather was hot, very hot, one of those broiling, heavy days when not a leaf stirs. The table had been placed out of doors, under an apple tree, and from time to time Sapeur had gone to the cellar to draw a jug of cider, everybody was so thirsty. Celeste brought the dishes from the kitchen, a ragout of mutton with potatoes, a cold rabbit and a salad. Afterward she placed before us a dish of strawberries, the first of the season.

"As I wished to wash and freshen these, I begged the servant to go and draw me a pitcher of cold water.

"In about five minutes she returned, declaring that the well was dry. She had lowered the pitcher to the full extent of the cord and had touched the bottom, but on drawing the pitcher up again it was empty. Mother Lecacheur, anxious to examine the thing for herself, went and looked down the hole. She returned, announcing that on. . . Read More

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This third volume of Maupassant's stories includes 13 tales. Of these, five are stand-outs: Miss Harriet, Little Louise Roque, Moiron, The Door and A Wedding Gift. Maupassant's well known misogyny is on display in another story; The Relic. All of these tales take place in France in the 1880s, with m