13 min The Diamond Necklace
The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, n…
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Guy de Maupassant
Destino e ironia à francesa: contos precisos como um gesto no último segundo.
Episódios
5 posts 13 min 
20 min A Vendetta
The widow of Paolo Saverini lived alone with her son in a poor little house on the outskirts of Bonifacio. The town, built on an outjutting part of the mou…
11 min Madame Parisse
I was sitting on the pier of the small port of Obernon, near the village of Salis, looking at Antibes, bathed in the setting sun. I had never before seen a…
34 min Miss Harriet
There were seven of us on a drag, four women and three men; one of the latter sat on the box seat beside the coachman. We were ascending, at a snail's pace…
11 min The Piece of String
It was market-day, and from all the country round Goderville the peasants and their wives were coming toward the town. The men walked slowly, throwing the…