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"'Boule de suif' est un chef-d'œuvre", écrivait Gustave Flaubert. Ce récit a imposé son auteur, Guy de Maupassant, comme un maître de la nouvelle. L'histoire, inspirée d'un fait divers, se déroule pendant la guerre de 1870 alors que dix personnes fuient Rouen envahi par les Prussiens.

Diplomacy by other means may, at times, sound heroic. A fight for principles and ideals carried out by young men armed to the teeth and directed by older men in pursuit of their own version of glory for themselves and their Nations. Right will triumph over wrong. But war can be an illusion, stirred up by schemers and opportunists to take something from other nations that may or may not be right. As blood and limb are sacrificed the true cost is seen but often set to one side as the dispute becomes embedded in emotions and reason falls away.

Guy de Maupassant was an absolute master of the short story genre, delighting in clever plotting, concise style, and efficient storytelling, which he used to produce stunning pieces in a very condensed format. Maupassant specialized in realism, with its sharp criticism of lower human nature and society, and fantastic, although his ventures in the supernatural are often used as an implicit symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds - he was absolutely fascinated with psychiatry, which was nascent at the time.

Eine bunt gemischte Gesellschaft bricht zur Zeit des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges auf, um nach Le Havre zu fahren. Bei einem Zwischenhalt wird die Gesellschaft von einem preußischen Offizier, der einen Liebesdienst von Fettklößchen erpressen will, an der Weiterreise gehindert...

"Véritable visite guidée à travers la poésie française des cinq derniers siècles le présent disque propose un florilège consacré aux animaux. De du Bellay à Bataille, en passant par La Fontaine, Florian, Hugo, Verlaine et tant d'autres, nous invitons les enfants à découvrir la poésie à travers un thème original et cher à tous. La lecture des 31 poèmes choisis a été confiée à deux grandes voix féminines : Isabelle Carré et Rachida Brakni. La voix douce et quasi enfantine d'Isabelle Carré ravira jeunes et grands. Cristalline et pénétrante, celle de Rachida Brakni séduira par sa force"

Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance. Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life...

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

A colourful palette of short stories featuring artists and their love of paintings. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain, "The Cat" by E. F. Benson, "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde, "A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant, "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome, "Miss Harriet" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe, "My Adventure at Chislehurst" by A. J. Alan, "The Stalled Ox" by Saki, "The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson.

A spine-tingling collection of classic ghost stories – a perfect way to pass those long winter nights! This set contains "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki, "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, "Lost Hearts" by M.R. James and "The Furnished Room" by O. Henry.

Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Die Regentrude" (Storm), "Der Stern über dem Walde" (Zweig), "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" (Eichendorff), "Die Begegnung" (de Maupassant), "Die Apothekerin" (Tschechow), "Die Tatsachen im Falle Waldemar" (Poe), "Der Großinquisitor" (Dostojevski), "Der Lohn der Liebe" (Boccaccio), "Die Meuterei auf der Bounty" (Verne), "Das Flaschenteufelchen" (Stevenson).

Familiarize-se com os escritores mais importantes da era do século XIX francês, a era dos romances e do realismo, que moldaram o pensamento político, filosófico e artístico e que influência pode ainda hoje ser sentida na nossa cultura.

Le narrateur est invité dans une petite ville de province chez un ami, Simon Radevin, qui lui fut autrefois cher. Les deux amis se sont cependant perdus de vue depuis quinze ans. "Puis il s'était marié. Il avait épousé tout à coup une fillette de province venue à Paris pour chercher un fiancé. Comment cette petite blondasse, maigre, aux mains niaises, aux yeux clairs et vides, à la voix fraîche et bête, pareille à cent mille poupées à marier, avait-elle cueilli ce garçon intelligent et fin ? Peut-on comprendre ces choses-là ?"

"Apparition" est une nouvelle fantastique de Guy de Maupassant. Lors d'une soirée, le marquis de la Tour-Samuel raconte une étrange anecdote. Cela lui est arrivé il y a cinquante-six ans, mais il ne se passe pas une nuit sans qu'il revoit en rêve cette aventure. Cela commença par une rencontre avec un ami qu'il avait perdu de vue depuis cinq ans.

El personaje de esta historia vive en una apacible casa de campo, a orillas del río Sena, en una ciudad de Francia. Sus días son tranquilos y dedica su tiempo a descansar en el jardín, observar los barcos que surcan en el río y viajar a París para distraerse. Un día, y de manera inexplicable, empieza a padecer eventos y sensaciones extrañas durante las noches, los cuales lo empujarán hacia la locura y la desesperación. Este relato fantástico clásico representa una huida hacia un mundo misterioso y desconocido que el autor francés Guy de Maupassant escribió con excelencia.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

A glittering collection of classic short stories. 1. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub; 2. "Miracles" by Barry Pain; 3. "In a Far-off World" by Olive Schreiner; 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by George Gissing; 5. "A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner; 6. "A Very Black Business" by Ernest Bramah; 7. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain; 8. "The Pig and Whistle" by George Gissing; 9. "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub; 10. "Life’s Gifts" by Olive Schreiner...and many more.

Fifty great classic short stories selected from the works of the best writers of the last century.

“Boule De Suif” (1880) is considered Guy de Maupassant's finest work. It exposes the insidious hypocrisy of a group of French escaping invading Germans. Only one amongst them is sincere. This is the original story with language updated for modern readers. End notes and analysis of the story follow the text.

1.- Lo horrible (12:43) 2.- Suicidas (11:40) 3.-Miseria Humana (11:32) 4.-La muerta (10:47) 5.-La mano disecada. (13:24).

Set during the Franco-Prussian war, de Maupassant's story tells of a group of German soldiers occupying and gradually vandalising a stately home in Normandy. Bored of the dull location and incessant rain, the group of young officers decide to send to the nearest town for a group of prostitutes, so that they can hold an orgiastic dinner party. Among the women is the spirited young Rachel, whose willingness to fraternize with the Prussians is put to the test, with catastrophic results.