Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
Les Soirées de Médan is a collection of six short stories by six different writers associated with Naturalism, first published in 1880. All the stories concern the Franco-Prussian War. The contents of the book are as follows:
Mademoiselle Fifi is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant published in 1882. The stories are:
Artine Artinian was a distinguished French literature scholar of Armenian descent, notable for his valuable collection of French literary manuscripts and artwork. He was immortalized as a fictional character by his Bard colleague Mary McCarthy in the novel The Groves of Academe (1952) and by his friend Gore Vidal in the play The Best Man (1960).
Gil Blas was a Parisian literary periodical named for Alain-René Lesage's novel Gil Blas. It was founded by the sculptor Augustin-Alexandre Dumont in November 1879.
"À vendre" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"Useless Beauty" is a short story by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. The story was featured in Original Short Stories Volume 6 of 13 published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in 1926.
"Suicides" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. It was originally published on 29 August 1880 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. On 17 April 1883, it was published in Gil Blas under the pseudonym Maufrigneuse, and by other three periodicals, before being republished in the short story collection Les Sœurs Rondoli in 1884.
"Pierrot" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. It was originally published on 1 October 1882 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. A year later, in 1883, it appeared in the short story collection Contes de la bécasse. The story was dedicated to Henry Roujon, novelist and public servant.
"L'Inconnue" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"La Maison Tellier" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant published in 1881 in a series of short stories under the same title. Built around a prostitution theme, it is considered one of his best realist short stories, after his renowned Boule de Suif.
La Maison Tellier is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant that includes the eponymous story. The book established Maupassant as a prominent French writer following the success of his first short story, "Boule de suif". Five of the eight stories in the collection had already been published in various magazines, like Revue politique et littéraire and La Vie Moderne, and three were originals.
"La Peur" is an 1882 short story by Guy de Maupassant. It was first published in the October 23, 1882 issue of Le Gaulois, and later included in Contes de la bécasse in 1887. The short plot concerns the relation of incidents of fear told on the deck of a boat bound for Africa.
"Diary of a Madman" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"Imprudence" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"Tribunaux rustiques" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1884.
"Le Baptême" is a short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant. The story was published in 1885.
"La Confidence" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"La Bête à Maît' Belhomme" is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885.
"A Vendetta" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), first published in 1883 in the newspaper Le Gaulois, and included in his 1885 collection Contes du jour et de la nuit.
