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Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Wahnsinn. In Tagebucheinträgen beobachtet ein Mann an sich selbst, wie er urplötzlich alle Lebensfreude verliert und körperlich mehr und mehr verfällt. Die Ursache seines Verfalls vermutet er in einem unsichtbaren Wesen, das ihm nachts die Lebenskraft aus dem Leib saugt. Er versucht, die Existenz des "Horla" zu belegen und weiß irgendwann selbst nicht mehr, wie weit er seiner eigenen Wahrnehmung noch trauen kann.

Berühmte Autoren der Weltliteratur mit ihren besten Kurzgeschichten in ungekürzter Form: Mark Twain, Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, F. M. Dostojewski, August Strindberg, Joachim Ringelnatz, Guy de Maupassant, Heinrich Bredow, Honoré de Balzac, Ernst Kossak, Karl Ettlinger, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Friedrich Glauser, Georg Bötticher, Theodor Fontane, Rainer Maria Rilke, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johanna Spyri, Gottfried Keller, Friedrich Hebbel.

Die Brüder Pierre und Jean könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Während Jean, der Ältere, sich grüblerisch und verschlossen gibt, ist der Jüngere lebensfroh und zugewandt. Eines Tages erbt Jean das Vermögen eines Freundes der Familie und Pierre wird misstrauisch. Was steckt hinter dieser Erbschaft? Getrieben von Eifersucht und Missgunst deckt Pierre ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis seiner Mutter auf: Jean hat einen anderen Vater als Pierre.

Inside a hidden panel in an antique desk, a man discovers a long braid of hair. And the contemplation of this head of hair drives him mad. Do spirits really come back to inhabit the forms they left in this world?

Some of the most memorable stories are shared in the moments just before bed, around a fire, and rarely does the story contain an explanation for what seems a supernatural encounter. This is just such a story as a man in his 80s shares an encounter that has haunted his mind for more than 50 years. You are welcome to this classic story.

Mathilde Loisel, the lowly born wife of a clerk, has always felt she was meant for greater things. She imagines beautiful gowns, glittering parties, a home of opulence, and a life of comfort. Her only wish is to be flattered and admired, and she is miserable that she will never know that life. But out of the blue, her husband comes home with an invitation to a ball. She buys a new dress but mourns her lack of jewels. But wait!

A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room. Nothing seems too suspicious until the hand is mysteriously reclaimed.

In the decade between 1880 and 1890 Guy de Maupassant published over 300 short stories in a variety of modes, including the supernatural legend, the surprise-ending tale, and the realistic story. He also contributed to the sophistication of the horror story by pushing it even further than Edgar Allan Poe into the modern mode of psychological obsession and madness. In Am I Insane? Maupassant's focus is on how an obsession becomes so powerful that it is translated into murderous action.

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the daily lives of humans, which often reveal our darker nature. His years of service in the Franco-Prussian War provided him with rich material for his work.

The severed hand, whether real or a ghostly thing, always tries to avenge the one who created it or find its way back to the rest of the corpse. Narrated by David Stifel.

If you were asked by someone with greater means than yourself if you would be willing to let them adopt your son, what would you say? This is the dilemma proposed in this story. This story was written in a place and time where the role of children within a family may be different than in the 21st century. Would you hold your child tight, or give them a chance at something you could never give? Narrated by Glenn Hascall

A beautiful woman imagines she is married below her station. In an effort to make her happy, her husband brings home an invitation to a ball attended by the upper crust of Paris society. To his chagrin, she is only disappointed, and explains she has nothing to wear to the ball. The husband sacrifices his savings to buy her a dress. She has no jewelry, but she has a wealthy friend who will lend her a beautiful accoutrement to accompany the beautiful dress.

Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the day-to-day lives of characters, in which their hidden natures are often revealed. Many of his works also centerd on the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served.

"A Ghost" is an old man's reminiscence of a supernatural event that has haunted him for more than half a century....

Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave.

"Ozherel'e" - novella francuzskogo pisatelja Gi de Mopassana. Vpervye opublikovana v 1884 godu vo francuzskoj gazete Le Gaulois. Hrestomatijnyj primer ispol'zovanija neozhidannoj koncovki, stavshij svoego roda jetalonom dlja posledujushhih rasskazov jetogo tipa. Matil'da Luazel' s detstva mechtaet o roskoshnoj zhizni v vysshem obshhestve. No v silu svoego nevysokogo proishozhdenija ona byla vynuzhdena prinjat' predlozhenie melkogo chinovnika ministerstva obrazovanija.

Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century author who many consider to be one of the pioneers of the modern short story. The selections included here are: "In Various Roles", "The False Gems", "A Useful House", "Two Little Soldiers", "Ghosts", "The New Sensation", "The Thief", "On Perfumes", "In His Sweetheart's Livery", "The Confession", "Lost", "A Country Excursion", "The Relics", "Margot's Tapers", "The Accent", "Profitable Business", "The Last Step", "The Log", and "The Ill-Omened Groom".

Selections include: "The Duel" and "The Umbrella" by Guy de Maupasssant; "The Schartz-Metterklume Method", "The Open Window", and "The Story Teller" by Saki; "The Scandal Monger" and "Verochka" by Anton Chekhov; and "The Wardrobe" by Thomas Mann.

Menuett ist die Geschichte um einen Tanzmeister und seine Ballerina, die sich nach höfischem Glanz zurücksehnen...

Mit Boule de Suif gelang Maupassant literarischer Durchbruch.