This collection of 33 nineteenth-century tales, captures a world of society women, playboys, prostitutes, and Normandy peasants. Guy de Maupassant (Remembering Maupassant | Arts and Entertainment | BBC World Service) lays bare the dual nature of humanity, highlighting both nobility and a deep-seated hypocrisy.
Expect genuine levity and fun combined with severe psychological darkness, echoing the author’s later real life health struggles. This is a volume to have on your shelves, as the stories bear re-reading across stages of one’s life.
The stories are:
Boule de Suif; A Parisian Affair; A Woman’s Confession; Cock Crow; Moonlight; At Sea; A Million; Femme Fatale; Monsieur Jocaste; Two Friends; Awakening; The Jewels; Train Story; Regret; Minor Tragedy; The Christening; Coward; Rose; Idyll; Mother Sauvage; Madame Husson’s Rose King; Encounter; Happiness; A Bit of the Other; Love; Hautot & Son; New Year’s Gift; The Horla; Duchoux; The Lull-a-bye; Mother of Invention; Who Knows?; Laid to Rest; The Necklace
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352 pages in Penguin Classics
First published 1881
This selection and edition published, translated by Siân Mile, 2004
ISBN-13 : 978-0140448122
Guy de Maupassant