The Viaticum and Other Stories

by Guy de Maupassant

A selection of fifty of Guy de Maupassant's finest short stories, including "Was It a Dream?" "Madame Baptiste," "The Lancer's Wife," "The Relics," "The Carter's Wench," and many more!

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 2006

About the author

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.4⭐

*Denotes stories falsely attributed to Guy de Maupassant.

*The Viaticum (by René Maizeroy) 3⭐
*The Relics (by René Maizeroy) 2⭐
*The Thief (by René Maizeroy) 3⭐
*A Rupture (by René Maizeroy) 4.25⭐
*A Useful House (by René Maizeroy) 2⭐
*The Accent (by René Maizeroy) 3.5⭐
*Ghosts (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3⭐
*Crash (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3⭐
*An Honest Ideal (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3⭐
*Stable Perfume (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3⭐
*The Ill-Omened Groom (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 4.5⭐
*An Exotic Prince (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 4.25⭐
*Virtue in the Ballet (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3⭐
*In His Sweetheart’s Livery (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3⭐
*Delila (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3.25⭐
*A Mesalliance (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) 3.5⭐
Bertha 4⭐
Abandoned 5⭐
*A Night in Whitechapel (by Jean Richepin) 3.5⭐
*Countess Satan (by Jean Richepin) 3⭐
*Kind Girls (by Jean Richepin) 3⭐
*Profitable Business (by Jean Richepin) 1⭐
*Violated (by Jean Richepin) 3⭐
*Jeroboam (by Jean Richepin) 2⭐
The Log 3.5⭐
*Margot’s Tapers (by René Maizeroy) 3.25⭐
*Caught in the Very Act (by René Maizeroy) 2.5⭐
*The Confession (by René Maizeroy) 3.5⭐
Was It a Dream? 5⭐
*The Last Step (by René Maizeroy) 4⭐
The Will 3.5⭐
A Country Excursion 4.25⭐
*The Lancer’s Wife (by Jean Richepin) 2.5⭐
The Colonel’s Ideas 3.5⭐
One Evening 5⭐
*The Hermaphrodite (by René Maizeroy) 4⭐
Marroca 3.25⭐
An Artifice 5⭐
The Assignation 4⭐
*An Adventure (by Jean Richepin) 3⭐
The Double Pins 4⭐
*Under the Yoke (by René Maizeroy) 3⭐
*The Real One and the Other (by René Maizeroy) 3.5⭐
*The Upstart (by René Maizeroy) 2⭐
*The Carter’s Wench (by René Maizeroy) 3⭐
The Marquis (by Jean Richepin) 2.5⭐
The Bed 4.5⭐
An Adventure in Paris 4⭐
Madame Baptiste 5⭐
*Happiness (by René Maizeroy) 3⭐

[Forked Radish]

A collection of dubious and outright fake Maupassant stories. All stories which appeared in 1903 or later are suspect.