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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Guy de Maupassant
    1. I
    2. II
  4. Short Fiction
    1. The Dead Hand
    2. Doctor Heraclius Gloss
      1. I: The Mental Faculties of Doctor Heraclius Gloss
      2. II: The Physical Appearance of Doctor Heraclius Gloss
      3. III: How Doctor Heraclius Used to Spend His Days
      4. IV: How Doctor Heraclius Spent His Nights
      5. V: How the Dean Placed His Hopes in Eclecticism, the Doctor in Revelation and the Warden in Digestion
      6. VI: How for the Doctor the Road to Damascus Turned Out to Be the Ruelle des Vieux Pigeons, and How the Truth Was Revealed to Him in the Form of a Metempsychosic Manuscript
      7. VII: How One May Interpret a Couplet by Corneille in Two Ways
      8. VIII: How, Just as One Can Be More Royalist Than the King and More Devout Than the Pope, One Can Equally Be More of a Metempsychosist Than Pythagoras
      9. IX: Obverse and Reverse
      10. X: How a Mountebank Can Be More Cunning Than a Learned Doctor
      11. XI: In Which It Is Shown That Heraclius Gloss Was in No Way Exempt from All the Weaknesses of the Stronger Sex
      12. XII: Which Explains How Doctor and Animal Tamer Are in No Way Synonymous
      13. XIII: How Doctor Heraclius Gloss Found Himself in Exactly the Same Position as Good King Henry IV Who, Having Heard Two Leading Counsel Plead Their Case, Was of Opinion That Both Were Right
      14. XIV: How Heraclius All but Devoured a Dish of Beautiful Ladies of a Past Age
      15. XV: How the Warden Interpreted God’s Commandments
      16. XVI: How the Forty-Second Reading of the Manuscript Shed New Light Into the Doctor’s Mind
      17. XVII: How Doctor Heraclius Gloss Set About Finding the Author of the Manuscript
      18. XVIII: In Which Doctor Heraclius Recognises with Amazement the Author of the Manuscript
      19. XIX: How the Doctor Was Placed in a Terrible Dilemma
      20. XX: In Which the Doctor Has a Little Talk with His Servant
      21. XXI: In Which It Is Shown That a Dearly-Loved Friend Can Lighten the Heaviest Sorrow
      22. XXII: In Which the Doctor Discovers That His Monkey Resembles Him Even More Than He Thought
      23. XXIII: How the Doctor Realized That His Monkey Had Shamefully Imposed Upon Him
      24. XXIV: Eureka
      25. XXV: “I Am That I Am.”
      26. XXVI: What Was Said at Madame Labotte’s, the Fruiterer’s, 26, Rue de la Maraicherie
      27. XXVII: How Doctor Heraclius Did Not Agree with the Dauphin, Who, Having Saved a Monkey from Drowning, Threw It Back Again and Went Off to Find a Man to Save Instead
      28. XXVIII: “This Story Will Show You That, if You Want to Save a Fellow Creature from Blows and Believe That It Is Better to Rescue a Cat Than a Man, You Will Excite the Anger of Your Neighbours. All Roads Lead to Rome—But Metempsychosis Leads to the Lunatic Asylum.”—Balançon Star
      29. XXIX: How One Sometimes Exchanges Scylla for Charybdis
      30. XXX: How the Proverb—“The Madder One Is, the More One Laughs”—Is Not Always Quite True
    3. On the River
    4. At the Church Door
    5. Lieutenant Laré’s Marriage
    6. Simon’s Father
    7. A Family Affair
    8. Boule de Suif
    9. Les Dimanches d’Un Bourgeois
      1. I: Preparing for Excursions
      2. II: Patissot’s First Outing
      3. III: A Visit
      4. IV: Fishing
      5. V: Two Famous Men
      6. VI: Before the Festival
      7. VII: A Sad Story
      8. VIII: A Trial of Love
      9. IX: A Dinner and Some Ideas
      10. X: A Public Meeting
    10. Suicides
    11. A Grandmother’s Advice
    12. Story of a Farm Girl
      1. Part II
      2. Part III
      3. Part IV
      4. Part V
    13. A Country Excursion
    14. In the Spring
    15. Paul’s Mistress
    16. Madame Tellier’s Establishment
      1. Part I
      2. Part II
      3. Part III
    17. An Adventure in Paris
    18. A Christmas Eve Festival
    19. The Cake
    20. The Log
    21. Words of Love
    22. Marroca
    23. The Shepherd’s Leap
    24. The Bed
    25. Mademoiselle Fifi
    26. Relics of the Past
    27. The Blind Man
    28. Magnetism
    29. Guillemot Rock
    30. A Son
    31. Travelling
    32. A Corsican Bandit
    33. A Dead Woman’s Secret
    34. Dreams
    35. A True Story
    36. The Burglar
    37. A Woman’s Confession
    38. Moonlight
    39. A Cock Crowed
    40. The Child
    41. The Lock
    42. A Normandy Joke
    43. My Uncle Sosthène
    44. A Reckless Passion
    45. Mad?
    46. Correspondence
    47. A Widow
    48. Rust
    49. The Chair Mender
    50. An Artifice
    51. An Old Man
    52. A Parricide
    53. Pierrot
    54. A Norman
    55. The Pardon
    56. The Relic
    57. In the Moonlight
    58. Fear
    59. In the Country
    60. A Million
    61. The Will
    62. The Wolf
    63. The Kiss
    64. That Pig, Morin
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    65. Madame Baptiste
    66. My Wife
    67. The Snipe
    68. The Mad Woman
    69. Artfulness
    70. The Legend of Mont Saint-Michel
    71. Minuet
    72. Mother and Daughter
    73. A Christmas Tale
    74. Christmas Eve
    75. The Substitute
    76. On Horseback
    77. The Wooden Shoes
    78. Monsieur Jocaste
    79. Beside a Dead Man
    80. Two Friends
    81. At Sea
    82. The Necklace
    83. The Awakening
    84. Father Judas
    85. Feminine Men
    86. Mademoiselle Cocotte
    87. The Jewels
    88. Saint Anthony
    89. An Apparition
    90. Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure
    91. Queen Hortense
    92. On the Journey
      1. I
      2. II
    93. A Surprise
    94. Old Milon
    95. The Accursed Bread
      1. II
    96. Friend Joseph
    97. The Mother of Monsters
    98. The Orphan
    99. Old Boniface’s Crime
    100. The Greenhouse
    101. Denis
    102. He?
    103. The Window
    104. The Donkey
    105. André’s Disease
    106. The Moustache
    107. Timbuktu
    108. My Uncle Jules
    109. Hydrophobia?
    110. Caresses
    111. A Duel
    112. The Little One
    113. Madame Luneau’s Case
    114. Friend Patience
    115. The Funeral Pile
    116. Miss Harriet
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    117. Martin’s Girl
    118. The Orient
    119. The Child
    120. A Party
    121. The Odyssey of a Prostitute
    122. A Coup d’État
    123. A Humble Drama
    124. Théodule Sabot’s Confession
    125. A Vendetta
    126. The Confession
    127. Beside the Bed
    128. Regret
    129. The Avenger
    130. Suspense
    131. Decorated!
    132. The Father
    133. The String
    134. A Wise Man
    135. The First Fall of Snow
    136. The Model
    137. Practical Jokes
    138. The Hand
    139. Waiter, a Bock
    140. The Old Man
    141. Letter Found on a Drowned Man
    142. The Christening
    143. Coco
    144. Misti
    145. A Coward
    146. Rose
    147. A Traveller’s Notes
    148. The Patron
    149. The Umbrella
    150. An Idyll
    151. A Sale
    152. Mother Savage
      1. I
      2. II
    153. The Tramp
    154. A Meeting
    155. The Legacy
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
    156. Happiness
    157. Farewell
    158. Solitude
    159. My Landlady
    160. The Little Cask
    161. Châli
      1. I
      2. II
    162. The Drunkard
      1. I
      2. II
    163. A Woman’s Hair
    164. The Horrible
    165. A Memory
    166. A Walk
    167. The Sisters Rondoli
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    168. What the Colonel Thought
    169. Bed No. 29
    170. Nerves
    171. Confessing
    172. Fear
    173. The Return
    174. The Tomb
    175. The Confession
    176. The Castaway
    177. Yvette
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    178. Mad?
    179. Unmasked
    180. The Dowry
    181. Mohammed-Fripouille
    182. The Legacy
    183. The Keeper
    184. Berthe
    185. Bombard
    186. The Confession
    187. The Revenge
      1. Scene I
      2. Scene II
    188. Country Courts
    189. Room No. Eleven
    190. The Closet
    191. Military Honors
    192. For Sale
    193. ’Toine
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    194. The Christening
    195. The Unknown
    196. Blue and White
    197. Our Friends the English
    198. Letter from a Madman
    199. Old Mongilet
    200. Roger’s Method
    201. In a Railway Carriage
    202. The Little Soldier
    203. Checkmate
    204. Joseph
    205. Finis
    206. The Hairpin
    207. The Secret
    208. My Twenty-Five Days
    209. A Madman
    210. Indiscretion
    211. Mister Belhomme’s Beast
    212. The Woodcocks
    213. Monsieur Parent
      1. II
    214. Ça Ira
    215. Saved
      1. I
      2. II
    216. Little Roque
      1. II
    217. The Wreck
    218. Mademoiselle Pearl
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    219. The Hermit
    220. On Cats
    221. Rosalie Prudent
    222. Madame Parisse
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    223. Julie Romain
    224. The Sign
    225. Old Amable
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    226. A Family
    227. The Devil
    228. A Divorce Case
    229. The Inn
    230. Are We to Teach Latin?
    231. The Hole
    232. The Marquis of Fumerol
    233. The Farmer
    234. A Cry of Alarm
    235. Love
    236. Clochette
    237. In the Wood
    238. The Tramp
    239. A New Year’s Gift
    240. Madame Hermet
    241. Epiphany
    242. One Night’s Entertainment
    243. The Door
    244. The Baroness
    245. The Horla
    246. Night
    247. The Dead Woman
    248. Madame Husson’s May King
    249. The Father
    250. The Rabbit
    251. The Orderly
    252. Moiron
    253. The Assassin
    254. Duchoux
    255. The Rival Pins
    256. Divorce
    257. Our Letters
    258. The Mother Superior’s Twenty-Five Francs
    259. The Drowned Man
      1. I
      2. II
    260. The Cripple
    261. A Portrait
    262. Hautot and His Son
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    263. One Evening
    264. Boitelle
    265. Allouma
      1. I
      2. II
    266. The Rendezvous
    267. In Port
      1. I
      2. II
    268. The Mask
    269. The Test
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    270. Alexander
    271. The Putter-to-Sleep
    272. Mouche
    273. The Olive Orchard
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    274. Useless Beauty
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    275. Who Knows?
      1. I
      2. II
    276. Graveyard Sirens
    277. After
    278. The Pedlar
  5. Endnotes
  6. Colophon
  7. Uncopyright

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  1. Short Fiction
  2. Endnotes