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Title: Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) by Guy De Maupassant, Roger Colet ISBN: 0-14-044243-X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the undisputed master of the short fiction form
Comment: Guy de Maupassant is today considered by most literary historians to be the greatest short story writer who ever lived, in any century. When it comes to just telling a great story, he was the best, couldn't be topped. Both aspiring and established fiction writers should read Maupassant's finest stories to learn or brush up on the basics--plot, pacing, conciseness, character, mood, description, as well as to learn how simple naturalness and clarity of technique are important for writing engaging and readable fiction.
This is a very good selection of some of his most memorable tales. I would also recommend "A Day In The Country and Other Stories", which I believe is the best Maupassant collection available in English.
Maupassant was considered shocking a hundred years ago because he wrote about prostitutes and adultery in frank and unashamed terms. He was ahead of his time in that way. He never wrote a truly great novel, but 50 or 60 of his stories are real classics. Nobody who reads a great Maupassant story will soon forget it.
David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"
Rating: 4
Summary: Simply Guy
Comment: Guy de Maupassant is one of those few authors you just love to hate. Maybe it has to do with the fact that he's French, but that's another thing entirely. He's known for his fabulous short stories that can take you from feelings of sadness to joy to downright disgust. His collections of short stories incorporated here see to do exactly that.
Maupassant is one of those authors whose stories take some time to warm up before running smoothly about. Like an old engine, you will feel some cranks here and there, but after some time, everything seems to move smoothly along. His short stories are astounding. He's known for his thought provoking outlook on the french and european culture of his time. You can at times relate to his surroundings with the wars, famine, and greed that surrounds them, an environment that resembles very much modern times. Maupassant's best work has got to be the novella Le Horla, which is not included here. His other short stories just run short from comparing to that one, but that doesn't mean they're bad nonetheless. His writing style is different than other French authors, like Dumas, who favored patriotism above all else and looked at riches before dealing with the peasants. Maupassant look at the latter and how they relate to the former. That realistic approach just shows you that in any age or life we're living in, the rich will always have it for the poor, that life is not fair and if you don't stand up for your right, things not might, but will never go your way.
In his short collection, you capture a glimpse of a literary genius, whose light faded before his time. You feel the anguish of his troubled times, and can't help but wondering that even after centuries, history still keeps repeating itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best short story writer of all time
Comment: I first encountered Maupassant's work in my early teens, when I had to study a few of his stories for my English class. I remember my teacher saying, "there have been many great short story writers down the years, but only one real genius: Guy de Maupassant".
The great thing about his work is that it's timeless. Although most of them were written over 130 years ago, Maupassant talks of
catching "a cab" on the Champs-Elysee, pavement cafes in fashionable districts of Paris, and even cronyism in the corridors of power! As a fellow reviewer observed, all are full of wit and irony; there's something for everyone here.
And for those who think that Stephen King has the last word on horror writing: I defy anyone to name a story that is as scary as
The Horla.
This really is the world's finest display of the art of the short
story, and I would reccommend it to anyone.
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Title: The Necklace and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Guy De Maupassant ISBN: 0486270645 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Guy de Maupassant, Mademoiselle Fifi, and Other Short Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Guy De Maupassant, Guy De Maupassant, David Coward ISBN: 0192837524 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics) by Guy De Maupassant ISBN: 0140443150 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1975 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Life: The Humble Truth (Oxford World's Classics) by Guy De Maupassant, Roger Pearson ISBN: 0192832980 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Collected Short Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 0140185895 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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