The Orphan

Money gets you everywhere, it can even buy happiness - if you have enough. It is a fragile thing, though, and you must be careful what you do with it. When Mademoiselle Source, a wealthy woman who has been maimed in a tragic accident, adopts an orphaned baby, she could never have predicted that the young boy would make her life a living hell. She grows more and more afraid, until one day she decides to run away from him. But is it really so easy? Maupassant's dive into an unfamiliar genre, this fast-paced crime novel is unmissable for those who enjoyed James Patterson's 'Invisible'.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer. Famed for being a master of the French short story, he also wrote travel books and occasionally dabbled in poetry. His stories mainly focus on the relationships between men and women sitting at crossroads in their lives - whether personal or professional. His dramatic flair is largely influenced by French novelist Gustave Flaubert and is perfect for fans of Anton Chekhov's short stories. The most notable of the 300 short stories that he wrote include 'Bel Ami', 'Une Vie', and 'The Dumpling'.


  1. Classic Werewolf Collection

    Sabine Baring-Gould, Catherine Crowe, Alexandre Dumas, Marie de France, Frederick Marryat, Guy De Maupassant, Frank Powell

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  2. 100 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Klassiker die man kennen muss

    Franz Kafka, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Rumi, Platon, Tacitus, Homer, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, Alfred Adler, Marcus Aurelius, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl May, Alexandre Dumas, James Fenimore Cooper, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, O.Henry, Stefan Zweig, Charles Dickens, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Joseph von Eichendorff, Klaus Mann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Else Lasker-Schüler, Heinrich Heine, Herman Melville, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Gustav Freytag, Thomas Wolfe, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Galsworthy, Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow, Oscar Wilde, Lew Wallace, Voltaire, Lewis Carroll, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, Jack London, Miguel de Cervantes, Honoré De Balzac, Emile Zola, Guy De Maupassant, Moliere, Theodor Fontane, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoi, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Dante Alighieri, Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, E. T. Hoffmann, Heinrich Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, Heinrich von Kleist, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Gottfried Keller, Sophie von La Roche, Theodor Storm, William Shakespeare

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  3. 50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    Voltaire, Golden Deer Classics, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph von Eichendorff, Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Honoré de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Stendhal, Franz Kafka, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Schopenhauer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Christian Johann Heine, Herman Melville, Gustave Flaubert, Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lewis Carroll, Jules Verne, Emile Zola, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guy De Maupassant, Mark Twain, Molière, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl May, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Fontane, Joseph Conrad, Dietrich Theden, Arthur Schnitzler, August Strindberg, Oscar Wilde, Robert Musil, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Kurt Tucholsky

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  4. Erlesene Erzählungen 2 : Eine wahre Geschichte, Adieu, Erinnerung, Die Beichte, Der Schäfersprung, Aus alten Tagen, Magnetismus, Die Totenwache, Träume, Eine Beichte u.a.

    Guy De Maupassant

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  5. Erlesene Erzählungen 1

    Guy De Maupassant

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  6. Fettpärlan (lättläst)

    Guy De Maupassant

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  7. Una Vida : Drama psicológico en la Francia rural del siglo XIX y el desengaño amoroso

    Guy De Maupassant

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  8. Bola de sebo : Sátira social y crítica moral en el realismo del conflicto franco-prusiano

    Guy De Maupassant

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  9. Señorita Fifi : Clásico de la literatura francesa

    Guy De Maupassant

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  10. Bel-Ami

    Guy De Maupassant

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  11. Fuerte como la muerte : Pasiones y desilusiones en el París bohemio

    Guy De Maupassant

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  12. El Horla : Historia de horror

    Guy De Maupassant

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