Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant.

Maupassant (1850-1893) was a prodigious writer, particularly of short stories. This volume is divided into thirteen books of stories each with about a dozen stories. Maupassant's stories were often menacing or disturbing in some way.

THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand-produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . . This book contains all thirteen volumes of his original short stories. THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES Over the course of his career, French writer Guy de Maupassant made a number of important contributions to the then-emergent genre of short stories. Today, critics regard him as one of the most accomplished virtuosos of short fiction. This comprehensive collection of Maupassant's short works showcases the writer's unique talents, which include an unvarnished, straightforward style and a mastery of narrative structure. THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES