Selected Short Stories
1971
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This volume contains 30 of Maupassant's classic stories: Boule de Suif In the Spring The Graveyard Sisterhood Madame Tellier's Establishment A Ruse An Old Man Rust Two Friends The Jewels The Conservatory The Matter with André My Uncle Jules A Duel The Convert In the Bedroom Regret The decoration The Piece of String The Model The Hand Idyll Mother Savage Guillemot Rock Imprudence The Signal In the Woods The Devil The Horla The Mask Mouche. A fair selection of the master's short story output. Roger Colet has written the introduction for the Penguin Classic edition..
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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.
