The Hand
1875
First Published
3.51
Average Rating
20
Number of Pages
A man who keeps a severed hand attached to the wall of his drawing room is found mysteriously strangled at the same time that the hand disappears.
Avg Rating
3.51
Number of Ratings
722
5 STARS
14%
4 STARS
34%
3 STARS
42%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
2%
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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.
