The Complete Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher: RupaYear: 1995Language: EnglishPages: 1011ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A DescriptionGuy De Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850. Two occurrences in Maupassant youth, spent near Dieppe, France, scarred him for life. One was the seperation of his parents when he was 11 year old. Raised by his strong neurotic mother, Maupassant adored her, hated his father, despised all husbands, and remained a bachelor. The other was the discovery that he has syphilis, which he had either inherited or contracted. He claimed he was cured of it, but he wasn't, and in his later years it destroyed him. Living in Paris and studying law, he began to write, with his mother's friend Gustave Flaubert as his stern mentor. Quitting law, Maupassant worked for ten years as a government clerk, mostly for the naval ministry. When he was 30, his first published short story, Boule de Suif, the story of a Rouen prostitute, caused a sensation, and three years later he published his first