Great French and Russian Short Stories: Volume 1

by Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Honoré de Balzac

The short stories presented in this volume include several by Guy de Maupassant: "Love's Awakening," "Useless Beauty," "In the Moonlight," and "The Horla." Also included are "The Thief" and "The Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "The Mysterious Mansion" and "Christ in Flanders" by Honoré de Balzac; "The Bet,""The Kiss," "The Lottery Ticket," "A Work of Art," and "The Slanderer" by Anton Chekhov; "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol; "Zodmirsky's Duel" by Alexandre Dumas; "The Shot" by Alexander Pushkin; "The Long Exile" by Leo Tolstoy; and "Captain Burle" by Emile Zola.

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First published April 9, 2013

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 Schulte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really great short stories by Tolstoy, Poushkin, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, de Maupassant, etc. with narration by a few different narrators, including excellent narration by Cindy Hardin on the excellent double-bill "The Necklace" and "The False Jewels".