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Guy de Maupassant discípulo de Gustave Flaubert, convirtió la observación de la vida en una de las formas más precisas del realismo francés: comenzó a explorar con gran intensidad la soledad, la muerte, la percepción, la obsesión y la locura. En 1877 diagnosticado de sífilis, años más...

La Petite Roque (1885) de Guy de Maupassant est une nouvelle captivante où se mêlent tragédie et analyse psychologique. L’histoire débute avec la découverte du corps de Louise Roque, une jeune fille assassinée dans un paisible village normand. Ce crime bouleverse la communauté et déclenche une enquête qui fait émerger les secrets et les tensions cachés. Le récit suit notamment Monsieur Renardet, le maire du village, un homme influent, mais rongé par une culpabilité oppressante liée à ce drame.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

काहीवेळा अतिमानवी म्हणजे आपल्याला आकलन होऊ शकत नाही, किंवा मानवी शक्तीच्या पलीकडच्या गोष्टी घडत असतात, त्यांना...

"I committed a crime, it is true, a mad crime, but are not insane jealousy, passionate love, betrayed and lost, and the terrible pain I endure, enough to make anyone commit a crime without actually being a criminal?" Guy de Maupassant A lover's most unlikely jealousy, a mother's patient wait for...

Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe ‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance...