The Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Jacques, a middle-aged, pompous aristocrat is alone in his apartment on New Years Eve. He gets a surprise visit form Irene, a married woman who he adores. She has come to tell him...

For a long time Jacques Bourdillere had sworn that he would never marry, but he suddenly changed his mind. It happened suddenly, one summer, at the seashore.

"That girl Yvette, she is a mystery. Is she a charming youngster or a wretched jade?" Yvette belongs through her high-class prostitute mother, her birth, her education, her inherit...

Prussian soldiers occupy a small French village. The Prussian colonel makes his headquarters in the home of an old peasant, Milon. The colonel is interrogating the entire village s...

Brument, a poor pig breeder, and Cornu, an innkeeper, are charged by Brument’s wife with attempted murder. Mme. Brument tells how the two would-be assassins forced her to fill a ba...

Vaudrec, a good friend of Serbois and his wife Claire, dies. Serbois is hopeful that Vaudrec may have left them something in his will. Serbois and his wife go to see Lamaneur, Vaud...

Rose Leveque, a farm girl, is a servant on Vallin’s farm. Rose is deeply in love with Jacques, a farm laborer. Jacques, in order to seduce Rose, promises to marry her. Rose becomes...

A young man named Lesable who marries Cora, the daughter of a wealthy man, in order to inherit her aunt's fortune. However, the inheritance comes with a condition: they must have a...

Baron d’Etraille sees his wife kissing Marquis de Cervigne at a ball. Suspecting the worst, he informs his wife that they must separate. He arranges her alimony and tells her that...

Labarbe, Bardon and Sergeant-Major Varajou: each of these three bachelors has a remarkable experience, though perhaps Varajou's is the most remarkable of all.

Hautot, a rich widower and farmer, is critically wounded in a hunting accident. On his deathbed he tells his son of his mistress in the local town, of his periodic visits to her on...

Madame Poincot, wife of a wealthy ship owner, gives a party. She is forty, quite beautiful, virtuous and a wonderful wife and mother. At her party she falls hopelessly in love with...