A collection of 12 short stories by Guy de Maupassant: The Moribund - The Gamekeeper - The Story of a Farm Girl - The Wreck - Theodule Sabot's Confession - The Wrong House - The Diamond Necklace - The Marquis de Fumerol - The Trip of Le Horla - Farewell! - The Wolf - The Inn... “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.....