Original Short Stories — Volume 10
Original Short Stories — Volume 10

Original Short Stories — Volume 10

Original Short Stories — Volume 10 The old ship's surgeon, holding out his glass, watched it as...
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Author: Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893
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Original Short Stories — Volume 10

Original Short Stories — Volume 10

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Original Short Stories — Volume 10

Original Short Stories — Volume 10

$105.75 $52.85
Author: Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Original Short Stories — Volume 10

The old ship's surgeon, holding out his glass, watched it as it slowly filled with the golden liquid. Then, holding it in front of his eyes, he let the light from the lamp stream through it, smelled it, tasted a few drops and smacked his lips with relish. Then he said: You people do not know it the way I do. You may have read that admirable book entitled L'Assommoir, but you have not, as I have, seen alcohol exterminate a whole tribe of savages, a little kingdom of negroesalcohol calmly unloaded by the barrel by red-bearded English seamen. Right near here, in a little village in Brittany near Pont-l'Abbe, I once witnessed a strange and terrible tragedy caused by alcohol. I was spending my vacation in a little country house left me by my father. You know this flat coast where the wind whistles day and night, where one sees, standing or prone, these giant rocks which in the olden times were regarded as guardians, and which still retain something majestic and imposing about them. I always expect to see them come to life and start to walk across the country with the slow and ponderous tread of giants, or to unfold enormous granite wings and fly toward the paradise of the Druids. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 3086
Author: Maupassant, Guy de
Release Date: Oct 3, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Henderson, A. E., McMaster, Albert Cohn, Quesada, Louise Charlotte Garstin, 1864?-

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