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Title: Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant

Author: Guy de Maupassant

Posting Date: October 10, 2008 [EBook #593]
Release Date: July, 1996

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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A SELECTION from the WRITINGS of GUY DE MAUPASSANT

SHORT STORIES of the TRAGEDY AND COMEDY OF LIFE

WITH A CRITICAL PREFACE BY PAUL BOURGET of the French Academy

AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT ARNOT, M.A.

VOL. I {of III ??}

TABLE OF CONTENTS.[*]

VOLUME I.

1. MADEMOISELLE FIFI
2. AN AFFAIR OF STATE
3. THE ARTIST
4. THE HORLA
5. MISS HARRIET
6. THE HOLE
7. LOVE
8. THE INN
9. A FAMILY
10. BELLFLOWER
11. WHO KNOWS?
12. THE DEVIL
13. EPIPHANY
14. SIMON'S PAPA
15. WAITER, A "BOCK"
16. THE SEQUEL TO A DIVORCE
17. THE MAD WOMAN
18. IN VARIOUS ROLES
19. THE FALSE GEMS
20. COUNTESS SATAN
21. THE COLONEL'S IDEAS
22. TWO LITTLE SOLDIERS
23. GHOSTS
24. WAS IT A DREAM?
25. THE DIARY OF A MADMAN
26. AN UNFORTUNATE LIKENESS
27. A COUNTRY EXCURSION

[*] At the close of the last volume will be found a complete list of
the French Titles of De Maupassant's writings, with their English
equivalents.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Of the French writers of romance of the latter part of the nineteenth
century no one made a reputation as quickly as did Guy de Maupassant.
Not one has preserved that reputation with more ease, not only during
life, but in death. None so completely hides his personality in his
glory. In an epoch of the utmost publicity, in which the most
insignificant deeds of a celebrated man are spied, recorded, and
commented on, the author of "Boule de Suif," of "Pierre et Jean," of
"Notre Coeur," found a way of effacing his personality in his work.

Of De Maupassant we know that he was born in Normandy about 1850; that
he was the favorite pupil, if one may so express it, the literary
protege, of Gus