A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I

Guy de Maupassant

GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others CONTENTS OF THE 13 VOLUMES (180 Stories) VOLUME I. GU...

Guy de Maupassant

GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by: ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others VOLUME IV. THE MORIBUND THE GAMEKE...

Guy de Maupassant

CHAPTER I "Tschah!"

Guy de Maupassant

CHAPTER I. POVERTY CHAPTER II. MADAME FORESTIER CHAPTER III. FIRST ATTEMPTS CHAPTER IV. DUROY LEARNS SOMETHING CHAPTER V. THE FIRST INTRIGUE CHAPTER VI. A STEP UPWAR...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...