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  • 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read

    Volume Two - A Second Library of World Literature

    by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Madame de La Fayette, Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, D. H. Lawrence, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Richardson, George Sand, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Henryk Sienkiewicz, May Sinclair, Upton Sinclair, Stendhal, Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jonathan Swift, Rabindranath Tagore, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Lew Wallace, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Cao Xueqin, Émile Zola ...
    The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation ... Read more

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  • Harvard Classics

    The Five-Foot Shelf of Books

    by Aesop, Dante Alighieri, Hans Christian Andersen, Augustine of Hippo, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, Honoré de Balzac, Francis Beaumont, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Thomas Browne, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Benvenuto Cellini, Miguel de Cervantes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Charles Darwin, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas Dekker, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Dryden, Charles W. Eliot, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epictetus, John Fletcher, Theodor Fontane, Benjamin Franklin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oliver Goldsmith, Jacob Grimm, Edward Everett Hale, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Ben Jonson, Gottfried Keller, Thomas à Kempis, Alexander L. Kielland, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alessandro Manzoni, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, Guy de Maupassant, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, William Morris, Alfred de Musset, William Allan Neilson, William Penn, Plato, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, George Sand, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Adam Smith, Laurence Sterne, Theodor Storm, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Juan Valera, Virgil, Izaak Walton, John Webster, John Woolman ...
    Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's ... Read more

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  • Bel Ami

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Series Book 1 - Cletham Classics
    The rise of a scoundrel. The anatomy of a world. In Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant delivers a razor-sharp portrait of a man who climbs the social ladder not by virtue, talent, or labor—but by charm, seduction, and sheer opportunism. Georges Duroy begins with nothing: a handsome face, a military past, and the hunger to rise. What follows is a calculated ascent through the bedrooms and salons of Paris, ... Read more

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  • Short Story Masterpieces: The Gilded Portfolio

    by Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, Oscar Wilde ...
    Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, and Oscar Wilde are indisputable masters of the short story. They continue to entertain, thrill, and delight readers across generations because they are so deeply human, so relatable, and so exquisitely recounted.This definitive edition features:New translations: Nuanced translations from the original source material, bringing vibrant new life to timeless classics ... Read more

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  • The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Enter the vivid and often unsettling world of one of France's greatest short-story writers. The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant brings together the remarkable short fiction of Guy de Maupassant, celebrated for his sharp observations of human behavior, elegant prose, memorable characters, and powerful endings. Maupassant's stories move across a wide range of settings and subjects, from ... Read more

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  • The Complete Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Discover the brilliance of one of the world's greatest short story writers in this comprehensive collection of timeless literary masterpieces. Explore "The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant," an extraordinary anthology bringing together the celebrated short fiction of one of France's most influential authors. Renowned for his elegant prose, psychological insight, vivid realism, and ... Read more

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  • Bel Ami

    The Illustrated Gift Edition

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Series series The Gilded Library
    A penniless cavalry veteran with a good moustache is given a job on a Paris newspaper and discovers that every rung above him — press, salon, ministry — can be reached through a woman. Maupassant follows Georges Duroy up all of them without once raising his voice or offering a judgement. Paintings of boulevards, newsrooms and gaslit salons. Gilded Library decoration of newspaper sheets, a ... Read more

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  • Bel Ami

    Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    A penniless cavalry veteran with a good moustache is given a job on a Paris newspaper, and discovers that every rung of the ladder above him is a woman. Maupassant was trained by Flaubert, who made him rewrite for seven years before letting him publish, and he wrote this in the middle of the press-and-politics world he was watching from inside. Nothing in it punishes the scoundrel. ... Read more

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  • Yvette

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    A young man pursues Yvette, the beautiful daughter of a Marquise whose salon is not quite what it appears — and discovers, slightly before she does, exactly what her mother is and what that makes her. Flaubert was Maupassant's mother's friend and made him rewrite for seven years before allowing him to publish; this long story is his cruellest about innocence, and the cruelty is in the reader's ... Read more

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  • Pierre and Jean

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    Two brothers in a Le Havre shipping family, one of whom inherits a fortune from a friend of their late mother. That is the whole engine: a will, and a younger son who begins, slowly and against his will, to do arithmetic about his own family. Flaubert was his mother's friend and made Maupassant rewrite for seven years before letting him publish; this short novel is what that training produced. ... Read more

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  • The Necklace

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is a masterfully crafted short story that explores vanity, ambition, and the unpredictable twists of fate. Set in 19th-century France, this timeless classic delivers a powerful moral lesson through a simple yet unforgettable narrative. The story centers on Mathilde Loisel, a young woman born into modest circumstances who longs for a life of luxury and admiration. ... Read more

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  • Two Friends

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    It's 1870 and the Siege of Paris is in full swing, where the French-Prussian war has brought daily life to a halt. Wearied, starving, and strung out on absinthe, two men meet by chance at their favourite fishing spot. "Two Friends" follows Morissot and Sauvage as they make their way into no man's land and drink away the miseries of the war.A powerful short story that extolls the virtues of French ... Read more

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