French author of the naturalistic school, Maupassant is generally considered to be the greatest French short story writer of his day. The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction, which consists of some 39 stories, only a tenth of his total. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417936150.Volume I---------------------------Ball-of-Fat (Boule de Suif)The Diamond NecklaceA Piece of StringThe Story of a Farm-GirlIn the MoonlightMme. Tellier's ExcursionLoveMme. FifiMonsieur ParentUseless BeautyAn Affair of StateBabetteA Cock CrowedLilie LalaA VagabondThe MountebanksUglyThe DebtA Normandy JokeThe FatherThe ArtistFalse AlarmThat Pig of a MorinVolume II---------------------------Miss HarrietThe HoleThe InnA FamilyBellflowerIn the WoodThe Marquis de FumerolSavedThe SignalThe DevilThe Venus of BranizaThe RabbitLa MorillonneEpiphanySimon's PapaWaiter, a Bock!The Sequel to a DivorceThe ClownThe Mad WomanMademoiselleVolume III---------------------------A Bad ErrorThe PortChaliJeroboamVirtue in the BalletThe Double PinsHow He Got the Legion of HonorA CrisisGraveyard SirensGrowing OldA French Enoch ArdenJulie RomainAn Unreasonable WomanRosalie PrudentHippolyte's ClaimBenoistFecundityA Way to WealthAm I Insane?Forbidden FruitThe Charm DispelledMadame ParisseMaking a ConvertVolume IV---------------------------A Little WalkA Wife's ConfessionA Dead Woman's SecretLove's AwakeningBed No. 29MarrocaA PhilosopherA MistakeFlorentineConsiderationWoman's WilesMoonlightDoubtful HappinessHumiliationThe Wedding NightThe Noncommissioned OfficerIn the Court RoomA Peculiar CaseA Practical JokeA Strange FancyAfter DeathOn CatsRoom No. ElevenOne Phase of LoveGood ReasonsA Fair ExchangeThe Tobacco ShopA Poor GirlThe SubstituteA Passion

    The Butterfly That Stamped, and How the Alphabet Was Made..

    A heartbreaking tale set in the vast wintry landscape of the North, it endures as one of the greatest adventures ever written.

    The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny.The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.

    Wherefore, when the clarion call of the North rang on his ear, he conceived an adventure in eggs and bent all his energy to its achievement. He figured briefly and to the point, and the adventure became iridescent-hued, splendid. That eggs would sell at Dawson for five dollars a dozen was a safe working premise. Whence it was incontrovertible that one thousand dozen would bring, in the Golden Metropolis, five thousand dollars.

    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.