Selected tales of Guy de Maupassant
By: edited, with an introduction, by Saxe Commins ; illustrated by Adolf Dehn.
Contributors: Commins, Saxe.; Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Work titles: Short stories.
Notes: Gift of Vera A. Leese and Estate of Al Leese.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Mademoiselle Fifi --; title: Vain beauty --; title: The Horla --; title: Madame Tellier's excursion --; title: The piece of string --; title: A matter of business --; title: The story of a farm-girl --; title: That pig of a Morin --; title: The umbrella --; title: Was it a dream? --; title: The false gems --; title: Hautot Senior & Hautot Junior --; title: A family affair --; title: A Normandy joke --; title: The diamond necklace --; title: In the moonlight --; title: Love --; title: The little cask --; title: Clochette --; title: A fishing excursion --; title: Humiliation --; title: Julie Romain --; title: The specter --; title: My Uncle Sostenes --; title: The duel --; title: A vagabond --; title: Madame Parisse --; title: One phase of love --; title: Simon's papa --; title: The vendetta --; title: The farmer's wife --; title: The signal --; title: Love's awakening --; title: The olive grove --; title: Saved --; title: A country excursion --; title: The diary of a madman --; title: Two little soldiers --; title: The white wolf --; title: The devil --; title: A lucky burglar --; title: Moonlight --; title: The mad woman --; title: A costly outing --; title: Babette --; title: Toine --; title: The Marquis de Fumerol --; title: Ugly --; title: Ball-of-fat.