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...

Ce livre audio comprend les nouvelles : Mademoiselle Fifi, Madame Baptiste, La Rouille et Marroca. Quatre textes dans lesquels Maupassant fait montre de son talent à la fois de conteur d'histoires, et de critique de l'âme humaine, les bassesses et les maladresses sont racontées avec réalisme, mais aussi avec tendresse.

A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room. Nothing seems too suspicious until the hand is mysteriously reclaimed.

Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of its finest exponents. From the humorous to the tragic to the gruesome, with an economy and precision of language, his stories can delight or disturb. Here are ten of them.

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short-story genre, producing more than three hundred during his lifetime. These concise stories contain twists and shocking turns, and range from the fantastic and supernatural, with characters descending into madness and their most base desires, to the challenges of marriage and parenthood, and to the broader philosophical ruminations on the nature of regret and what it means to love. The twenty-eight stories...

En la presente publicación, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), narrador por excelencia de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX francés, nos da muestras de su dominio de todos los resortes del arte de narrar, con un estilo lingüístico y literario insuperable, de aparente sencillez pero difícil de conseguir. Esta compilación de sus más famosos relatos breves nos permite apreciar cómo su pluma cincela las frases como un buril grabando sobre cristal duro...

"Guy de Maupassant - intégrale des romans" est une collection complète des romans de l'écrivain français Guy de Maupassant, publiée en un seul volume. Cette intégrale contient les œuvres les plus célèbres de l'auteur, comme "Bel-Ami", "Une vie" et "Pierre et Jean", ainsi que de nombreux autres romans moins connus.

I committed a crime, it is true, a mad crime, but are not insane jealousy, passionate love, betrayed and lost, and the terrible pain I endure, enough to make anyone commit a crime without actually being a criminal? Guy de Maupassant A lover's most unlikely jealousy, a mother's patient wait for revenge, a young actress driven to destruction by a cruel husband, a story of jilted love and murder in a London lodging house, and a confrontation that brings...

Afloat, originally published as Sur l'eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in a wholly original style. Humorous and troubling stories, unreliable confessions, stray reminiscences, and thoughts on life, love, art, nature,...

Une édition de référence de Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Jean, aussi blond que son frère était noir, aussi calme que son frère était emporté, aussi doux que son frère était rancunier, avait fait tranquillement son droit et venait d'obtenir son diplme de licencié en même temps que Pierre obtenait celui de docteur. [...] Mais une vague jalousie, une de ces jalousies...