The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
Mathilde borrows a diamond necklace for one glamorous night and loses it. Maupassant's best-known story and its famous twist ending, ready to read in ten minutes.
Loading the book...
Keep reading
-
Next in this topic
An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeA Confederate planter stands on a railroad bridge with a rope around his neck, and then the rope breaks. Bierce's most famous story takes 20 minutes to read and has one of the great twist endings in fiction.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Ransom of Red Chief
Two small-time crooks kidnap a banker's son for ransom and soon learn the boy is worse than any punishment. A comic twist on the kidnapping story, and the deal ends in a direction nobody expects.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Sredni Vashtar
A sickly boy secretly worships a polecat-ferret he keeps in the garden shed, hidden from his strict guardian. Saki's darkest tale, with a final scene that is hard to forget.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Lady, or the Tiger?
A young man who dared to love a princess must open one of two doors: behind one waits a bride, behind the other a hungry tiger. Stockton's 1882 story ends with a question readers have argued about ever since.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Was It a Dream?
A grieving man spends the night at his lover's grave and sees the dead rise to rewrite their own epitaphs. A short ghost story with a cruel final line.
Verified PDF · Secure download
Explore more Short Stories
- Short Stories for Adults
- Short
- Short Mystery Stories
- Short Love Stories
- Short Bedtime Stories
- Science Fiction Short Stories
- Famous Short Stories
- Moral Stories