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There is great variety in these stories, some of them very short, and at least one a bit too long to be truly called a "short story". Many are lighthearted and funny, while others -- particularly those that take place near the end of the Franco-Prussian war -- are full of pathos. But all are written in a simple, straightforward style, and most are imbued with an irony that seems to be the way de Maupassant chooses to comment on the world around him. One, very chilling, presages De Maupassant's o
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