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- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- ISBN10: 1406592692
- ISBN13: 9781406592696
Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893 was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. As a protg of Flaubert, his short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dnouement. In 1880 he published his first masterpiece, Boule de Suif, which Flaubert characterized it as 'a masterpiece that will endure. ' This was Maupassants first piece of short fiction and was followed by short stories such as Deux Amis 1882 and Mademoiselle Fifi 1882 . He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught, emerge changed - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. In his novels, he concentrated all his observations scattered in his short stories. His second novel was Bel-Ami; or, The History of a Scoundrel, which came out in 1885. His other works include: La Maison Tellier 1881 , Une Vie 1883 , Miss Harriet 1884 , Mont-Oriol 1887 , Pierre et Jean 1888 , Fort Comme la Mort 1889 and Notre Coeur 1890 .
