Title: La morte
Title Record # 1937302
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1887-05-31
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
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Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1887-05-31
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
Note: First published in Gil Blas, 31 May 1887.
Synopsis: The narrator's wife has died. Grieving, he wanders into the cemetery one night. He sees all the dead begin to rise from their graves; each one erases the pious words written on their gravestones about how they were loving spouses and beloved parents, and instead write the truth: they were hypocrites, bullies, thieves, tyrants, backbiters, adulterers...
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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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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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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 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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Reviews
- Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)