Contes du jour et de la nuit (French Edition) Kindle Edition

This book is written in French and composed of a number of short stories including De Maupassant's famous "La Parrure" (The Necklace"). His style is rather pessimistic and critical, but he often paints a vivid picture of the 19th century. His stories are interesting to read and discuss.

Great collection of stories, very well written with vivid descriptions. They all have the same general theme of illegitimate children or adults wronging each other, often with an odd twist at the end. There are enough unknown paternity stories to make me feel like I'm reading an episode of Maury Povich.

I enjoy reading Maupassant in the original French. His work seems to be regarded as more easily readable than other French authors. Not everyone likes his often dark subject matter, but whether one considers it good or bad may really be expressing personal taste.

Maupassant, his short stories as well as his novels, are among my all time favorites in french literature. I enjoy this book so much. As any first rate writer each of his stories takes right there, you forget yourself and your surroundings completely and become one with the story. Too bad there are no such books written and/or published today.

A good study book for early/intermediate level; lots of words to look up, but the stories are short and seem relatively straightforward.

I majored in French language and literature so de Maupassant was not new to me. I just loved reading something in French again.

Contes du jour et de la nuit is a nice addition to my Kindle library. It has afforded me an opportunity to keep my French fresh. I shall continue to look for French language novels and short stories to buy and download.

I thought I had read every one of Maupassant's short stories but in this book I found some I hadn't. They are the usual scary, fantastic, excellent tales. By far one of my favorite authors, never disappointing.

free audio available to accompany the text = www litteratureaudio (com) it is not complete though seven missing out of twenty-one.(stories ordered from the book)1 Le crime au Pere Boniface2 Rose3 Le Pere4 L'Aveu6 Le bonheur8 Un Lache9 L'Ivrogne13 Le Gueux14 Un Parricide15 Le Petit16 La Roche aux guillemots17 Tombouctou18 Histoire vraie19 Adieutotal time 3 hours 10 minutes.

This (e)book is made of short stories. Some are light hearted and some are harsh (thus probably the title day and night). The author has an unforgiving style and doesn't care about happy endings. His description of characters and their mind is given in a realistic way, without beautiful hero, without soothing unfairness. But he has this amazing ability to take your hand, guide you to their soul and follow their journey. It was written around 1880 so there are some words difficult to understand, especially like clothes description, but feelings and thoughts haven't evolved so much!

From a hilarious opening story about a postman who gets more than he bargained for when he hears sounds of a struggle on his route to a heartbreaking tale of a lost necklace - Maupassant and Chekhov both share the gift of being able to create time, place and a flashbang of profound emotion in a few scant pages.

classic stories that you can read again and again

These tales are very entertaining, always contain a twist of some sort, my students are thoroughly enjoying them.