The Entire Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. 8 (Illustrated)

by Guy de Maupassant, Amanda Lee (Editor)

Overview

• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.
• Guy de Maupassant is one of the modern masters of the art of the short story and has influenced practitioners of that genre from his time to the present. "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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015799453
Publisher:	Five Star Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	12/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a prolific French writer best remembered as a master of the short story and a father of the genre. He delighted in clever plotting and served as a model for later short story practitioners through favorites such as "The Necklace," "The Horla," "The False Gems," and "Useless Beauty." Maupassant wrote some 300 short stories, as well as six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.