The Devil
1992
First Published
3.47
Average Rating
141
Number of Pages
Mother Rapet, the greedy nurse to a dying old woman, finds a way to make a bigger profit from the job.
Avg Rating
3.47
Number of Ratings
230
5 STARS
14%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
42%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Guy de Maupassant
Author · 216 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.
