Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Volume I #1

A collection of 12 short stories by Guy de Maupassant: Boule de Suif - Two Friends - The Lancer's Wife - The Prisoners - Two Little Soldiers - Father Milon - A Coup d'Etat - Lieutenant Lare's Marriage - The Horrible - Madame Parisse - Mademoiselle Fifi - A Duel. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s

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