Devouring De Maupassant

Title: The First Snowfall Date Read: 06 February 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: When a Norman gentleman takes his young Parisian wife home to live in his chateau, she becomes sad and melancholic about the loneliness of the place, and the … [Read more...]

Title: Legend of Mont St. Michel Date Read: 06 February 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: The narrator recounts the legend of Saint Michel, and how the saint managed to vanquish the devil and expel him from Normandy. Afterthoughts: In … [Read more...]

Title: A Tress of Hair Date Read: 30 January 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: A lover of past times and antiques, discovers a hidden tress of hair in a piece of seventeenth-century furniture. He begins to become unhealthily obsessed with the … [Read more...]

Title: The Cripple Date Read: 30 January 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: The narrator enters an empty train carriage and takes his seat, before he is joined by a man who has considerable difficulty in walking. As the train gets under way the … [Read more...]

Title: The Father Date Read: 09 January 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Clerk, Francois Tessier falls in love with a woman (Lousie) on his daily commute. Despite the woman's shy and cautious nature the couple eventually take a day trip to … [Read more...]

Title: Useless Beauty Date Read: 09 January 2012 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Livid at the treatment meted out by her oppressive and jealous husband, the stunningly attractive Comtesse de Mascaret confronts the Comte, telling him that she knows … [Read more...]

Title: Moiron . Date Read: 12th December 2011 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Monsieur Maloureau recounts his time as a district attorney, and the case involving mild-mannered teacher, Monsieur Moiron. … [Read more...]

Title: A Meeting. Date Read: 12th December 2011 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Finding his wife in the embrace of another man, Baron d'Etraille informs his wife that they are going to split, amicably. They meet again by chance six years later, … [Read more...]

Title: Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse Date Read: 19th September 2011 Available Online?: YES Briefly: Intrigued by another man's reading habits, the narrator sets about befriending a sick German guest who is staying at the same hotel as him. He soon … [Read more...]

Title: Miss Harriet Date Read: 19th September 2011 Available Online?: YES Briefly: While on a coach trip from Etretat to the ruins of Tancarville, the old painter Leon Chenal is asked to tell a love story of which he's played a part in. He … [Read more...]

Devouring De Maupassant: The First Snowfall

Devouring De Maupassant: Legend of Mont St. Michel

Devouring De Maupassant: A Tress of Hair

Devouring De Maupassant: The Cripple

Devouring De Maupassant: The Father

Devouring De Maupassant: Useless Beauty

Devouring De Maupassant: Moiron

Devouring De Maupassant: A Meeting

Devouring De Maupassant: Beside Schopenhauer’s Corpse

Devouring De Maupassant: Miss Harriet