Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume X contains the following titles:

1. The Christening
2. The Farmer's Wife
3. The Devil
4. The Snipe
5. The Will
6. Walter Schnaff's Adventure
7. At Sea
8. Minuet
9. The Son
10. That Pig of a Morin
11. Saint Anthony
12. Lasting Love
13. Pierrot
14. A Normandy Joke
15. Father Matthew Public Domain (P)2021 Voices of Today