Was It a Dream?
1910
First Published
4.12
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A famous short story, first collected in the United States in "Pierre and Jean, Ball-of-Tallow: The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant."
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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.
