VOLUME IX.

Toine
madame Husson’s rosier
the adopted son
A coward
old Mongilet
moonlight
the first snowfall
Sundays of A bourgeois
A recollection
our letters
the love of long ago
friend Joseph
the effeminates
old Amable

   Volume X.

The christening
the farmer’s wife
the devil
the snipe
the will
Walter SCHNAFF’S adventure
at sea
minuet
the son
that pig of A Morin
saint Anthony
lasting love
Pierrot
A Normandy joke
father Matthew

   Volume XI.

The umbrella
Belhomme’s beast
discovery
the accursed bread
the dowry
the diary of A mad man
the mask
the penguins rock
A family
suicides
an artifice
dreams
Simon’s papa

   Volume XII.

The child
A country excursion
rose
Rosalie prudent
regret
A sister’s confession
Coco
A dead woman’s secret
A humble drama
mademoiselle cocotte
the Corsican bandit
the grave

   Volume XIII.

Old Judas
the little cask
Boitelle
A widow
the Englishmen of Etretat
magnetism
A fathers confession
A mother of monsters
an uncomfortable bed
A portrait
the drunkard
the wardrobe
the mountain pool
A cremation
Misti
madame Hermet
the magic couch

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES

VOLUME I.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT A STUDY BY POL.  NEVEUX

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”  These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . .