Volume 12 · Available now
Contes du jour et de la nuit
Annotated
The complete twenty-one-story collection, including La Parure, Coco and La Main, with notes on irony, justice, family and social violence.
About the work
A landmark mystery, returned to its full narrative force.
Across Paris, Normandy and Corsica, Maupassant compresses social ambition, cruelty and sudden reversals into twenty-one exact stories. Notes follow selected tales so that context never interrupts their narrative force.
Textual source. The complete twenty-one-story French collection first published in 1885.
What this edition adds
Care around the text,
never over it.
The complete collection
Every text remains in its documented sequence, with the original voice and structure preserved.
Context after the reading
Concise notes illuminate language, history and form without interrupting the work or anticipating its effects.
A coherent visual world
Five monochrome plates echo the material detail and atmosphere of the collection.
Accessible by design
Reflowable text, semantic navigation, descriptive links and alternative text support flexible reading.