Short Fiction

Short Fiction

By Guy de Maupassant.

Translated by Ernest Boyd, Storm Jameson, Jeffery E. Jeffery, Lafcadio Hearn, M. Walter Dunne, Henry C. Olinger, Albert M. Cohn-McMaster, Dora Knowlton Ranous, Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc., and Francis Steegmuller.

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