Best Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
1968
First Published
3.60
Average Rating
190
Number of Pages
19 stories
Avg Rating
3.60
Number of Ratings
40
5 STARS
28%
4 STARS
25%
3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
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.
