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Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

By Guy de Maupassant

2020-05-09 19:24:01

“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 b ... Read more
“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 volumes of his original short stories. Less

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File size1384.305 KB
Print pages572
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1519453075
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school,...

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