On the River
2014
First Published
3.71
Average Rating
9
Number of Pages
A famous short story, AKA "On the Water"
Avg Rating
3.71
Number of Ratings
55
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
38%
3 STARS
35%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
0%
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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.
