Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant - Bookniverse

Guy de Maupassant is remembered as the ‘father of the modern short story’. In the tales he created, a single moment can sometimes change everything. In this collection of his twenty most celebrated short stories, readers are transported to 19th-century France, a land of grand ballrooms, humble farms, and the smoky shadows of war. Some stories, like The Necklace, explore how vanity and pride can lead to a lifetime of struggle, while others, such as The Piece of String, show how difficult it is to prove the truth. These stories are famous for their twist endings. By reading these stories, we learn that the most dramatic battles are often fought within the human heart.****************************Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 in a beautiful coastal region of France. As a young man, he was mentored by the famous novelist Gustave Flaubert, who taught him that a writer must look at an object until they see what nobody else has seen. Although his life was relatively short—he died at only forty-two—he wrote over three hundred stories, becoming one of the most successful authors of his time.