Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant

names from the world of literature and the arts : Charles Gounod, Guy de Maupassant. Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died on July 6, 1893. Selected from among 107 projects, it was that of Gustave Eiffel. On January 2, in 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Dr. Narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator the reader realises after reading the story that Maupassant may be exploring the theme of connection. Critics have charted Maupassant's developing illness through his semi-autobiographical stories of abnormal psychology, but the theme of mental disorder is present even in his first collection, La Maison Tellier (1881), published at the height of his health. In Two Little Soldiers by Guy de Maupassant we have the theme of friendship, connection, love, change, discontent, conflict, betrayal and jealousy. The disease later caused increasing mental disorder - also seen in his nightmarish stories, which have much in common with Edgar Allan Poe's supernatural visions. Maupassant had suffered from his 20s from syphilis.

Maupassant's most upsetting horror story, Le Horla (1887), was about madness and suicide. Pierre Et Jean (1888) was a psychological study of two brothers. Among Maupassant's best-known books are Une Vie ( A Woman's Life, 1883), about the frustrating existence of a Norman wife and Bel-Ami (1885), which depicts an unscrupulous journalist. Usually they were built around simple episodes from everyday life, which revealed the hidden sides of people. This volume contains 30 of Maupassants classic stories: Boule de Suif In the Spring The Graveyard Sisterhood Madame Telliers Establishment A Ruse. In tone, his tales were marked by objectivity, highly controlled style, and sometimes by sheer comedy. During the 1880s Maupassant created some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. Zola, his masterpiece, 'Boule De Suif' ('Ball of Fat', 1880). In the same year he published in the anthology Soirées de Medan (1880), edited by E.

As a poet Maupassant made his debut with Des Vers (1880).

Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant