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Best Short Stories

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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly described, while the harshness of war is deftly exposed.

His tales have been televised and have influenced films, operas and rock music. Unillusioned but humane, Maupassant remains our contemporary.

Short Stories include:

  • Boule de Suif
  • Two Friends
  • Madame Tellier’s Establishment
  • Madamoiselle Fifi
  • Clair de Lune
  • Miss Harriet
  • The Necklace
  • Madamoiselle Pearl
  • The Piece of String
  • Madame Husson’s ‘Rosier’
  • That Pig of a Morin
  • Useless Beauty
  • The Olive Orchard
  • A Sale
  • Love
  • Two Little Soldiers
  • Happiness
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Date Published: 1997-05-02
Number of Pages: 224
Pack Quantity: 96
ISBN: 9781853261893
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Athough Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) wrote novels, plays, poems and travel journals, it is for his short stories that he is remembered. His output was phenomenal, writing over three hundred short stories in the decade from 1880-1890. These works are rated alongside those of Turgenev, Chekhov, Poe and James, and were highly influential on those that followed him, such as Kipling, Conrad and O. Henry.
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