Title: La main
Title Record # 1723645
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1883-12-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: La main d'écorché
Series Number: 2
Language: French
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Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1883-12-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: La main d'écorché
Series Number: 2
Language: French
Note: This is the second version of the story, published in the Le Gaulois, December 23, 1883. Maupassant completely re-wrote his initial tale entitled La main d'écorché, published in 1875 in L'Almanach lorrain de Pont-à-Mousson.
Synopsis: This story takes place in Corsica and is narrated by a magistrate. He visits Sir John Rowell, an Englishman settled in the area having fled his homeland. Sir John shows his collection of arms; among them is a mummified hand chained to the wall. He explains that it's the hand of his greatest enemy and is chained to stop it from getting away (the magistrate takes this for a joke). A year later Sir John is found dead, strangled, with the chain broken and the hand missing.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Fiction, #1 | 1953-10-00 | ed. Editors of Fiction | OPTA | F100?F: French frank |
132 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
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Les chefs-d'œuvre du fantastique?Les chefs-d'oeuvre du fantastique |
1967-00-00 | ed. Jacques Bergier, Alex Grall, Jacques Sternberg | Planète (Anthologie Planète) | 480 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Christian Broutin | |||
Contes fantastiques complets | 1973-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique #464) |
384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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La France fantastique de Balzac à Louÿs | 1973-00-00 | ed. Jean-Baptiste Baronian | Marabout (Anthologie du Fantastique) | 443 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||||
Contes fantastiques complets | 1976-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique #464) |
380+ [4] |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Qui sait ?: et autres histoires étranges | 1981-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur) | 2-264-00345-6 | 297 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Frank Sérac | ||
Contes fantastiques complets | 1983-01-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique #464) |
2-501-00040-4 | 384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Contes du jour et de la nuit | 1990-09-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Garnier-Flammarion | 2-08-070292-0 / 292 | 251 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll |
J. Béraud?J. Beraud
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Contes du jour et de la nuit | 1991-04-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche #6490) | 2-253-04654-X | 220 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Matthias Grünewald?Matthias Grunewald
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Contes fantastiques complets | 1996-01-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout?Bibliotheque Marabout #9001) |
2-501-00948-7 | 384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques | 2000-00-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classique #840) | 2-253-00539-8 | F20.00?F: French frank |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Léon Spilliaert?Leon Spilliaert
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Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques?Le Horla: et autres recits fantastiques |
2011-08-00 | Guy de Maupassant | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classiques #840) | 978-2-253-00539-1 | €3.00?€: Euro |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Francesco Oller y Cestero |
Reviews
- Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)