# Strong as Death

Author: Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4777

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Strong+as+Death+Maupassant&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Broad daylight streamed down into the vast studio through a skylight in the ceiling, which showed a large square of dazzling blue, a bright vista of limitless heights of azure, across which passed flocks of birds in rapid flight. But the glad light of heaven hardly entered this severe room, with high ceilings and draped walls, before it began to grow soft and dim, to slumber among the hangings and die in the portieres, hardly penetrating to the dark corners where the gilded frames of portraits gleamed like flame. Peace and sleep seemed imprisoned there, the peace characteristic of an artist's dwelling, where the human soul has toiled. Within these walls, where thought abides, struggles, a...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strong-as-death-4777/chapters/4/index.md)