Stories – Guy de Maupassant

S$95.00

Stories – Guy de Maupassant

S$95.00

Title: Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant, Roger Colet (trans), Ben F. Wohlberg (illus)
Publisher: The Franklin Library, 1980. A limited edition.
Condition: Hardcover, full red leather. Small and slight dents/scratches to fore-edge. Otherwise like new.

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This book features:

  • Full red top-grade leather binding
  • Genuine 22k gold gilt to all edges, front design, spine, and back
  • Silk moire endsheets
  • Satin bookmark, sewn-in
  • Hubbed spine with raised bands
  • Smyth-sewn binding for durability
  • Premium acid-neutral archival paper that will not yellow

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form’s finest exponents. He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry. Greatly admired by Nietzsche and Tolstoy.

Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. The story “Boule de Suif” (“Ball of Fat”, 1880) is often accounted his masterpiece. His most unsettling horror story, “Le Horla” (1887), was about madness and suicide.