Maupassant: Masterpieces Volume 1

Stories in this collection

8 stories

• The NecklaceA borrowed jewel offers a clerk’s wife one dazzling evening in the world she longs to enter.
• The False GemsA husband’s certainty about his happy marriage is disturbed by his wife’s apparently inexpensive jewelry.
• Boule de SuifStranded travelers test the generosity of a woman they consider beneath them during the Franco-Prussian War.
• Two FriendsTwo fishing companions try to reclaim a familiar pleasure while Paris is under siege.
• Mademoiselle FifiAn occupying officer’s contempt turns an evening’s entertainment into a confrontation with unexpected courage.
• Miss HarrietA painter recalls an English traveler whose reserve conceals a fierce and lonely emotional life.
• The Piece of StringA thrifty peasant picks up a scrap of string and discovers how stubborn a rumor can become.
• MoonlightA stern priest’s certainties meet their challenge during a moonlit walk through the countryside.