The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 / Boule de Suif and Other Stories

Guy de Maupassant

• Stories
• Book language: English
• 287 pages

This first volume gathers short stories by Guy de Maupassant, opening with the title piece 'Boule de Suif' and including tales such as 'The Horla' and 'Miss Harriet.' Maupassant writes in a clear, realistic style about ordinary people, social class, desire, and irony. The collection offers varied, sharply observed slices of nineteenth-century French life.

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