The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1
Boule de Suif and Other Stories
This first volume of a ten-volume American edition of Guy de Maupassant, published in 1909 with an introduction by Arthur Symons, opens with "Boule de Suif," the story of a prostitute and her respectable fellow passengers on a coach fleeing the Prussians in 1870, the tale that made Maupassant's name. Among the twenty-nine pieces that follow are "Miss Harriet," "The Horla," his best-known story of terror, "The Umbrella," "My Uncle Sosthenes," "The Little Cask," "The Devil" and "The Inn." Peasants, clerks, hunters, husbands and women of all conditions pass through them, observed with the hard clarity Maupassant learned from Flaubert and told with almost no comment. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first story is free.
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