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Mad Woman, The - Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) - Short Story
"I can tell you a terrible story about the Franco-Prussian war," Monsieur d'Endolin said..."You know my house in the Faubourg de Cormeil...I had for a neighbor a kind of mad woman, who had lost her senses in consequence of a series of misfortunes." Maupassant Links
Madame
Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) - Novel
A novel by Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Madame Bovary was scandalized when
it first came out (Flaubert and his editor were prosecuted for "offences against
public morals." Emma Rouault, a farmer's daughter, leaves the convent and marries
Charles Bovary, a country doctor. Flaubert
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Magic
Net, The - Johann Goethe (1749-1832) - Poem
"Do I see a contest yonder? / See I miracles or pastimes?" Goethe
Links | Goethe E-texts
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen (1775-1817) - Novel
Read Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1775-1817). Austen began writing Mansfield Park in 1811 and it was published in 1814, just as she began writing Emma. Fanny Price is the heroine of the tale.
Austen Links | Austen E-texts
Marquis
de Fumerol, The - Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) - Short Story
"Roger de Tourneville was whiffing a cigar and blowing out small clouds
of smoke every now and then, as he sat astride a chair amid a party of friends.
He was talking. "
Maupassant Links
Masagetes,
The - Johann Goethe (1749-1832) - Poem
"In the deepest nights of Winter / To the Muses kind oft cried I..."
Goethe
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Misery
- Anton Chekov (1894-1905) - Short Story
"The twilight of evening. Big flakes of wet snow are whirling lazily about
the street lamps, which have just been lighted, and lying in a thin soft layer
on roofs, horses' backs, shoulders, caps." Chekhov
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Moll
Flanders - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - Novel
Daniel Defoe writes, "My true name is so well known in the records or registers
at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence
still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not be
expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work..."
Mourning
Lament - Johann Goethe (1749-1832) - Poem
"Oh thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden, / Tell me what great sin have I committed..."
Goethe
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Moxon's
Master - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - Short Story
"Are you serious?—do you really believe a machine thinks?" Bierce
Links | Bierce Bio | Bierce
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Mutiny
of the Elsinore - Jack London (1876-1916) - Novel
"From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a
bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely
on time. "
"My
Last Duchess" - Robert Browning - Poem
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,/
Looking as if she were alive." R.
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