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Title: The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.

Author: Guy de Maupassant

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The Works of

Guy de Maupassant

VOLUME VIII

PIERRE ET JEAN

AND OTHER STORIES

_ILLUSTRATED_

NATIONAL LIBRARY COMPANY

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY

BIGELOW, SMITH & CO.

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CONTENTS

PIERRE ET JEAN.

DREAMS

MOONLIGHT

THE CORSICAN BANDIT

A DEAD WOMAN'S SECRET

THE CAKE

A LIVELY FRIEND

THE ORPHAN

THE BLIND MAN

A WIFE'S CONFESSION

RELICS OF THE PAST

THE PEDDLER

THE AVENGER

ALL OVER

LETTER FOUND ON A DROWNED MAN

MOTHER AND SON

THE SPASM

A DUEL

THE LOVE OF LONG AGO

AN UNCOMFORTABLE BED

A WARNING NOTE

THE HORRIBLE

A NEW YEAR'S GIFT

BESIDE A DEAD MAN

AFTER

A QUEER NIGHT IN PARIS

BOITELLE

* * * * *

OF "THE NOVEL"

I do not intend in these pages to put in a plea for this little novel.
On the contrary, the ideas I shall try to set forth will rather
involve a criticism of the class of psychological analysis which I
have undertaken in _Pierre et Jean_. I propose to treat of novels in
general.

I am not the only writer who finds himself taken to task in the same
terms each time he brings out a new book. Among many laudatory
phrases, I invariably meet with this observation, penned by the same
critics: "The greatest fault of this book is that it is not, strictly
speaking, a novel."

The same for