false 77996 7 1903. Part One contains Volumes I-IV of X. French author of the naturalistic school, Maupassant is generally considered to be the greatest French short story writer of his day. The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction, which consists of some 39 stories, only a tenth of his total. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417936150. 766605 1970 The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant total:136|5:71|4:50|3:15|2:0|1:0| 136 600 185 12 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 30 10:22:52 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 10:28:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 08:40:22 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 08:40:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 30 11:21:03 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 11:21:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 12 15:06:13 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 15:23:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat May 31 11:22:18 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 01:07:33 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 11:22:18 -0700 2008 i first read the story "ball-of-fat" around 2002... from it, i learned about fairness and the vicious nature of the group mentality. a sort of prostitute's rights primer in fiction.
de maupassant is my favorite moralist. in two or three ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 02 13:56:07 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 08 13:21:29 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 08 13:26:23 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Sun Apr 06 07:43:33 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 07:49:09 -0700 2008 Guy de Maupassant is a master of the short story. Set often in the towns and countryside of wartime France, the stories are painful and revealing without ever being mocking. He understands human questions with poignant depth. The stories are thoroughly enjoyable as well as "classics."
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