Old Man, an (1882) [Short Story]
by Guy de Maupassant
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Summary
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An old man at a health resort takes great pleasure in hearing about the illnesses and causes of death of the other old people around him.
First published in Gil Blas in 1882.
Original title: Un vieux
Original languages:
French
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Short Shorts (1982) [Anthology]
Authors: Ernest Hemingway
, Franz Kafka
, James Joyce
, D. H. Lawrence
, Anton Chekhov
, Leo Tolstoy
, Luigi Pirandello
, Heinrich Böll
, Octavio Paz
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Yukio Mishima
, Stephen Crane
, Doris Lessing
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Sherwood Anderson
, Guy de Maupassant
, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
, James Thurber
, Jerome Weidman
, Isaac Babel
, Gottfried Keller
, William Carlos Williams
, Heinrich von Kleist
, Grace Paley
, Marie Luise Kaschnitz
, João Guimarães Rosa
, I.L. Peretz
, Giovanni Verga
, Sholom Aleichem
, Mikhail Zoshchenko
, Varlam Shalamov
, Augusto Monterroso
, Paula Fox
, Luisa Valenzuela
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