THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1,339) pp.)Hanover House($5.95).
Guy de Maupassant had an eye for life as clear and wary as that of a Norman peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple. De Maupassant was proud as a boy of his feats of strength, he grew up to be an industrious lover of women, and he died, a syphilitic madman, at the age of 43. He was a great writer.
He had a Norman's instinct for power, and he marshaled his little world of words' like a master. In his ten productive years he wrote nearly 300 short...
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