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Original Short Stories of Maupassant,
by Guy de Maupassant
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Title: Original Short Stories of Maupassant, Volume 1
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Release Date: October 3, 2004 [EBook #3077]
Language: English
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Produced by David Widger
ORIGINAL MAUPASSANT SHORT STORIES
by Guy de Maupassant
Translated by
ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A.
A. E. HENDERSON, B.A.
MME. QUESADA and Others
VOLUME I.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT--A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX
BOULE DE SUIF TWO FRIENDS THE LANCER'S WIFE THE PRISONERS TWO LITTLE SOLDIERS FATHER MILON A COUP D'ETAT LIEUTENANT LARE'S MARRIAGE THE HORRIBLE MADAME PARISSE MADEMOISELLE FIFI A DUEL
GUY DE MAUPASSANT A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX
"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to