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Title: La peur Title Record # 1733577
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1882-10-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: La peur
Series Number: 1
Language: French
Note:
  • Borderline speculative: this is really a discourse on the fear of the unknown, illustrated by two anecdotes where imagination, atmosphere, and not knowing the cause of perceptions combined to create intense fear.
  • This is the first of two different tales bearing this title, published in the October 23rd 1882 issue of Le Gaulois, and included in the 1883 collection Les contes de la bécasse. It is not to be confused with the second one, published in the July 25th 1884 issue of Le Figaro, and left uncollected by the author.
  • The first sentence is On remonta sur le pont après dîner, "We went back up on deck after dinner".
Synopsis: Some travelers are chatting about fear. One of them says he has known true fear, and tells about two experiences, one occasion in Africa involving mysterious phenomena and a sudden death, and the other being a night spent in a hut with a group of people who were convinced a dead man was returning to haunt them.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1903Translated by an uncredited translator, appeared in an edition of the works of Maupassant published by M. Walter Dunne, 1903.
English The Traveler's Story
1907 English Fear [as by Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant]
1909Translation of the 1882 story "La peur" ("We went on deck after dinner..."). DO NOT MERGE with translations of the other story with the same title. This record combines multiple translations: an uncredited translation (1909); an uncredited translation revised by Dora Knowlton Ranous (1910); one by Storm Jameson (1922); one by Marjorie Laurie (1923); and perhaps others.
English Fear
1962Translated by Marjorie Laurie
English Fear
1972Translated by Arnold Kellett
English Fear
1976Translated by Lucie Haring and Rob Geuljans
Dutch Angst
1976 Translated by unknown. Only the second part of the story, the return of the dead poacher.
German Die Angst
2015Translated by Sandra Smith and Eleanor Hill
English Fear

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
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.
coll  
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.
coll Checkmark
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.
coll  
Contes de la bécasse et autres contes de chasseurs 1991-11-00 Guy de Maupassant Presses Pocket (Lire et voir des classiques #6096) 2-266-04331-5   270
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 Checkmark
Contes de la bécasse 1994-08-00 Guy de Maupassant Gallimard (Folio classique #1144) 2-07-037144-1   214
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 Pierre-Auguste Renoir  
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.
coll  
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.
coll
Léon Spilliaert?Leon Spilliaert
Checkmark
Le Horla: et autres nouvelles fantastiques 2008-02-00 Guy de Maupassant Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket #12349) 978-2-266-15920-3
€1.50?€: Euro
100
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 Johann Heinrich Füssli Checkmark
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  
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