Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Volume VII #7

A collection of 15 short stories by Guy de Maupassant: The False Gems - Fascination - Yvette Samoris - A Vendetta - My Twenty-Five Days - "The Terror" - Legend of Mont St. Michel - A New Year's Gift - Friend Patience - Abandoned - The Maison Tellier - Denis - My Wife - The Unknown - The Apparition... “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.....