Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

No one wrote the short story with a colder, clearer eye than Maupassant, and this large collection gathers the tales that made him a master of the form. Peasants and clerks, prostitutes and aristocrats, soldiers and cuckolds move through stories that turn on a single sharp irony or a sudden cruelty of fate. Some, like Boule de Suif and The Necklace, are among the most famous stories ever written; others are grim, funny, or quietly devastating studies of provincial France and the Franco-Prussian War. Across hundreds of pages his unsentimental craft never falters. This volume collects his short fiction in English translation. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.