Best of Guy de Maupassant
1902
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Maupassant's experiences in the army during the Anglo-Prussian War provided him with ingredients for some of the finest short stories.He wrote about 300 short stories and six novels.But inspite of his wealth and fame,he was deeply distressed as his precocious and colourful life had inflicted on him with syphilis.He started hallucinating,and in 1892 even tried to commit suicide.Confined to a lunatic asylum in Paris,Maupassant died on 6 July 1893.The present collection showcases some of his most admired short stories such as Ball-of-Fat,Francis,He os dealing with a plethora of emotions. Meet Maupassant at his very best.
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Guy de Maupassant
Author · 165 books
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
