Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Volume V #5

A collection of 12 short stories by Guy de Maupassant: Monsieur Parent - Queen Hortense - Timbuctoo - Tombstones - Mademoiselle Pearl - The Thief - Clair de Lune - Waiter, A "Bock" - After - Forgiveness - In the Spring - A Queer Night in Paris... “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.....