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"The Necklace", or sometimes "The Diamond Necklace", (French: La Parure) is a short story by Guy de Maupassant, first published on 17 February 1884 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. [1] It is known for its twist ending , a hallmark of de Maupassant's style.
In August 2003, Project Gutenberg created a CD containing approximately 600 of the "best" e-books from the collection. The CD is available for download as an ISO image. When users are unable to download the CD, they can request to have a copy sent to them, free of charge. In December 2003, a DVD was created containing nearly 10,000 items. At ...
First edition. Hangman's Holiday [1] is a collection of short stories, mostly murder mysteries, by Dorothy L. Sayers.This collection, the ninth in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, was first published by Gollancz in 1933, [2] and has been reprinted a number of times since, for example the 1995 paperback: ISBN 978-0-06-104362-8).
"The Queen's Necklace", one of the stories in the collection Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar by Maurice Leblanc; The Queen's Necklace: A Swedish Folktale, a children's book by Helena Nyblom; The Queen's Necklace, a novel by Antal Szerb; Queen's Necklace, a board game by Bruno Faidutti and Bruno Cathala; a popular name for Marine Drive, Mumbai
The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850 (immediately following the French Revolution of 1848). It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace , an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.
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al-ʿIqd al-Farīd (The Unique Necklace, Arabic: العقد الفريد) is an anthology attempting to encompass 'all that a well-informed person had to know in order to pass in society as a cultured and refined individual' (or adab), [1] composed by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860–940), an Arab writer and poet from Córdoba in Al-Andalus.
The gang is arrested, but one man manages to escape, taking the necklace with him. The man is later arrested but the necklace is not found. Mr Goon and the children are now searching for the missing necklace before the last remaining gang member finds the necklace. The Find-Outers later find the necklace, and the last man of the gang is arrested.