The Jewelry
1883
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A selection of Guy de Maupassant's "The Jewelry" from the anthology book The Norton Introduction to Literature, Eleventh Edition. "The Jewelry" is a short tale of a poor man whose beloved wife abruptly passes away, who finds himself with several thousand francs worth of her jewelry on his hands.
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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.
